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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.

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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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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In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.
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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 the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.
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Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to immaturity, mendacity and profound gullibility. It is as the hallmark of the culture. And it is justified as being economically indispensable.
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Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
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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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A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.
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One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
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Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
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