More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
  2. The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all …
  3. If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.
  4. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
  5. This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of …
  6. Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all h…
  7. The decisive weakness in neoclassical and neo-Keynesian economics is not the error in the assumptions by which it elides the problem of pow…
  8. Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effect…

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