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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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Economist
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No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.
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Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.
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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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If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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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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Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
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To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.
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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 spirit should never grow old.
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Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.
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The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
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Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.
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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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