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~ John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes ~
« on: January 07, 2015, 01:23:28 PM »
John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes


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.

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In economics the majority is always wrong.
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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2015, 01:25:18 PM »
When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
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« Reply #2 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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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2015, 01:27:46 PM »
The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2015, 01:29:35 PM »
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2015, 01:30:36 PM »
If all else fails immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2015, 01:32:36 PM »
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2015, 01:35:19 PM »
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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« Reply #8 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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« Reply #9 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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« Reply #10 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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« Reply #11 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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« Reply #12 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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« Reply #13 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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« Reply #14 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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