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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.
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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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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We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.
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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
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I think without a doubt, that what is called financial genius is merely a rising market.
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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
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Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
In recent times no problem has been more puzzling to thoughtful people than why, in a troubled world, we make such poor use of our affluence.
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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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I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.
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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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Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
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Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.
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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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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
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Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.
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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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We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.
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In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
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You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
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