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For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

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John Kenneth Galbraith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1908
Born: October 15
Died: 2006
Died: April 29
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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 inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
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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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A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.
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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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More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
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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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Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.
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Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.
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Conscience is better served by a myth.
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It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
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There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.
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Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
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One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
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The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures.
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I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.
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It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.
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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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People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
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At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
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