Denied Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

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“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.”

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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to…

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That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification…

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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

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If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

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Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see…

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While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

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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…

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