John Kenneth Galbraith ✓

(1908–2006) non-fiction writer

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[Wikidata] Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)... | [Wikipedia] John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an i

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• Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. Believe
• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. Admirable
• Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. Business
• The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. Banks
• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. Alone
• The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. Building
• A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. Buying
• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. Coexist
• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. Always Attribute
• War remains the decisive human failure. Anti War
• Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. Inspirational
• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. Automobile
• There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. Anybody
• You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. Badly
• By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man. Age
• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. Adman
• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. All
• In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. Corrupts
• It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. Aesthetic
• Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied. All
• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. Economic
• Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. Assumed
• The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. Commencement
• The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. Conventional
• The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. Aborted

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