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“An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.”

Quote by Joan Robinson

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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. more

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