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System Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
- 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…
- Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.
- There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
- The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
- The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
- A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs…
- THE GENIUS of the industrial system lies in its organized use of capital and technology. This is made possible, as we have duly seen, by…
- Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
- Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.
- The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear…
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