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Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money
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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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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I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive (Free Market Fraud, January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.
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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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The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.
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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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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.
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