The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
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Joan Robinson
Born in 1903 in England, Joan Robinson was one of the twentieth century's most influential economists and the leading figure of Cambridge's post-Keynesian school. Her 'Economics of Imperfect Competition' (1933) revolutionized market theory, her role in the Cambridge Capital Controversy challenged neoclassical foundations, and her contributions to Keynes's 'General Theory' shaped macroeconomics. Widely considered the greatest economist never to receive the Nobel Prize, she remains a symbol of both intellectual brilliance and the gender barriers that persist in academic economics.
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