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But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good…
  2. In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.
  3. Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large sc…
  4. You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
  5. Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  6. It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
  7. In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere o…
  8. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

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