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John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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John K. Galbraith
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To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.
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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.
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Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
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There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
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