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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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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.
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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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People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.
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Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
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Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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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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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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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 has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.
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It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.
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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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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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