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I began to read Capital, just as one reads any book, to see what was in it; I found a great deal that neither its followers nor its opponents had pre… - Joan Robinson
" "I began to read Capital, just as one reads any book, to see what was in it; I found a great deal that neither its followers nor its opponents had prepared me to expect.
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About Joan Robinson
Joan Robinson FBA (30 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British post-Keynesian economist who made many contributions to economic theory.
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Birth Name:
Joan Violet Maurice
Native Name:
Joan Violet Robinson
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Joan V. Robinson
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It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.
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