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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
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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The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
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The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.
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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.
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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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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.
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Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.
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I never enjoyed writing a book more indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
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American university presidents are a nervous breed I have never thought well of them as a class.
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In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
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Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.
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