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Title: ~ John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:23:28 PM
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

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A Canadian-American economist.
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century political liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s and he filled the role of public intellectual from the 50's to the 1970s on matters of economics.

Here are some famous quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith. 

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In economics the majority is always wrong.
Title: Re: ~ John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:25:18 PM
When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:26:42 PM
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:27:46 PM
The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:29:35 PM
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:30:36 PM
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:32:36 PM
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:35:19 PM
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:36:52 PM
Wealth in even the most improbable cases manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:37:41 PM
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:38:50 PM
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:39:34 PM
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:40:15 PM
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:41:11 PM
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:42:08 PM
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:42:57 PM
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:44:23 PM
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:45:16 PM
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:46:02 PM
Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:46:57 PM
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:47:48 PM
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although it has often been made has never proved widely persuasive.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:48:29 PM
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention but it has no persuasive value at all.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:50:05 PM
Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:50:54 PM
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:51:40 PM
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:52:43 PM
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:53:30 PM
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
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Post by: MysteRy on January 07, 2015, 01:54:17 PM
In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.