More from John Kenneth Galbraith

  1. Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was co…
  2. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
  3. Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift mi…
  4. In economics, the majority is always wrong.
  5. When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in…
  6. It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
  7. Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
  8. Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right …

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