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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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The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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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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Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.
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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.
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A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.
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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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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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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
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However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.
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If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to trickle down economics).
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Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
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I do the best with what exists.
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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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