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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• If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose… Administration
• One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing… Action
• Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity. Errors
• Food - taken to support life Wine - taken to enrichen life Food and Wine - taken to fulfill life Food
• Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion Abstraction
• In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. Busy
• A bubble comes from rising prices, whether of stocks, real estate, works of art or anything else. A price increase attracts attention and buyers, which… Anything Else
• In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent Consistent
• The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to… Alteration
• What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric… Any
• Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before Admiringly

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