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Increasingly in recent times ...

Increasingly in recent times we have come first to identify the remedy that is most agreeable, most convenient, most in accord with major pecuniary or political interest, the one that reflects our available faculty for action; then we move from the remedy so available or desired back to a cause to which that remedy is relevant.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Writing is a long and lonesom...

Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The first goal of the technos...

The first goal of the technostructure is its own security.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

However, it is safe to say th...

However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In fact, the wage-price spira...

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Only men of considerable vani...

Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

She is a reflection of comfor...

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Commencement oratory must esc...

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The massive reduction in risk...

The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

No ethic is as ethical as the...

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Then came the second Amsterda...

Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In economics it is a far, far...

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There is no name for all who ...

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The miserable consumption of ...

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In all modern depressions, re...

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Among all the world's races, ...

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

I've been a faithful reader o...

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.

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Technology, under all circums...

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

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A nuclear war does not defend...

A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Ideas may be superior to vest...

Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

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