Astrology Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Astrology Economics Investing Looks Respectable
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.” — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We should take astrology seriously. No, I don't mean we should believe in it. I am talking about fighting it seriously instead of humouring… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them. — Isabel Hickey Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Trusted Black Magic Specialist in Mississauga – Restore Peace and Harmony in Your Life" In today's fast-paced world, negative energies and unexplained problems can… — Psychic Ravi Copy Share Image
Astrology, or when the stars enlighten illuminated who dazzle a bunch of lunatics. — Paul Carvel Copy Share Image
“Year 2026 is a year of anchoring, a time when chaos transforms into order and stability becomes the greatest gift.” — Susan Mako Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
