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Economy Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally…
- The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or…
- It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
- No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control…
- Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907,…
- Happiness does not require an expanding economy
- It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
- Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.
- In the market economy the price that is offered is counted upon to produce the result that is sought.
- The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
- The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.
- 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…
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