Capitalism Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of the 20th…

— Mark Skousen

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

“The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at its height. Stocks fell, jobs…

— E.E. Knight

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living…

— Kshama Sawant

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with…

— John Ralston Saul

“International economic integration generally expands economic opportunities and is good for society. The great alternatives to economic integration failed. Attempts to seal countries off…

— Jeffry A. Frieden

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

I'd love if people relearned the lessons of the 20th century all over again. Which is to say this country progressed economically and socially…

— David Simon