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science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress.

Joan Robinson
Science, Errors, Progress
Joan Robinson (1962). “Economic philosophy”, p.38, Transaction Publishers

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

Joan Robinson
Law, Progress, Details
Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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