Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The family which takes it mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — 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
