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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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In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
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In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.
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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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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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When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
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A wrong decision isn't forever it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever they can never be retrieved.
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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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Happiness does not require an expanding economy
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If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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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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Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana.
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I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.
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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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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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But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
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