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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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We shall have a race of men who are strong on telemetry and space communications but who cannot read anything but a blueprint or write anything but a computer program.
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A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.
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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive (Free Market Fraud, January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.
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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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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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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.
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I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
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At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
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