The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by whichthey have once won office. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
