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John Kenneth Galbraith

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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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War remains the decisive human failure.


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?


— John Kenneth Galbraith


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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.


— 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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