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Errors Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
- To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
- The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks…
- When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then…
- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.
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