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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.


— 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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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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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


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


— 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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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.


— 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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