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Joan Robinson was a British economist renowned for her work on imperfect competition theory and labor theory of value. Her contributions have had a profound impact on the development of economics.

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Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.”

Moments Government Happens Areas Trade Patterns Various Balanced Globes Deficit Surplus

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.”

Government Democratic Unemployment Reproach Democratic Government

Book:After Keynes: Papers Presented to Section F (Economics) at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Source: After Keynes: Papers Presented to Section F (Economics) at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science