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States Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

16 States quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith’s sixteen quotes probe the dynamics of wealth distribution and policy. His style mixes wit with rigorous critique, exposing the gaps between theory and lived reality. This brief set offers a taste of his influential economic commentary.

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

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Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it…

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Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of…

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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the…

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You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things…

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From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but…

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We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts.…

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The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

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Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of…

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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions…

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The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the…

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The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already…

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The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.…

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In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very…

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Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,…

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Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

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If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending…

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Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see…

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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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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…

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