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Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
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 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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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new 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 study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
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