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Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
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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Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.
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There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.
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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.
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All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.
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But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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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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I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
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The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
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No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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Genius is a rising stock market.
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.
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