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Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
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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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .
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In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful. The press was busy printing money.
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The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.
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It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
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One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.
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Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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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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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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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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A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.
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I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.
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I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.
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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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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
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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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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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