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- “The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith.
- “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
- “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith.
- “Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Life in Our Times: Memoirs.
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith.
- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith.
- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith.
- The Great Crash, 1929
- The Affluent Society
- The New Industrial State
- The United States
- Power and The Useful Economist
- Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
- The Age of Uncertainty
- The Ashes of Capitalism and The Ashes of Communism
- The Culture of Contentment
- Washington Post Interview
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they...
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others.
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
"The United States" in New York magazine (1971-11-15); reprinted in A View from the Stands(1986) Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration th...
"Power and the Useful Economist" (1973); also in Annals of an Abiding Liberal and The Essential Galbraith When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself.To hold otherwise — to deny the...
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.
Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is...
"The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism," interview (undated) with John M. Whiteley in Quest for Peace: an Introduction(1986), ed. John Whiteley A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference betwee...
Excessive acreages of unused buildings, commercial and residential were created. The need for such construction, given the space demands of modern business bureaucracy, was believed to be without l...
One of the things I argue in my book [A Journey Through Economic Time] is the extent to which people go to avoid rational decisions – the very large role of mental deficiency in economic history. G...
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“The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.” ― John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash 1929. 25 likes. Like. “In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the economist embezzlement is the most interesting of crimes.
