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John Kenneth Galbraith

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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His work included several best selling works throughout the fifties and sixties. He further believed that market power played a major role in inflation and argued that corporations and trade unions could only increase prices to the extent that their market power allowed them to. The growing concern focused on the role of the corporation in politics the damage done to the natural environment by an unmitigated commitment to economic growth and the perversion of advertising and other pecuniary aspects of culture.

Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Truman John F.

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