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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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In economics, the majority is always wrong.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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His work included several best selling works throughout the fifties and sixties. He further believed that market power played a major role in inflation and argued that corporations and trade unions could only increase prices to the extent that their market power allowed them to. The growing concern focused on the role of the corporation in politics the damage done to the natural environment by an unmitigated commitment to economic growth and the perversion of advertising and other pecuniary aspects of culture.

Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Truman John F.

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