“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — 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
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and… — 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
