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Economic life, as always, is ...

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In public administration good...

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A drastic reduction in weapon...

A drastic reduction in weapons competition following a general release from the commitment to the Cold War would be sharply in conflict with the needs of the industrial system.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Those who had been riding the...

Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A [New Yorker ] is what it ha...

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There are days when the resul...

There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

I feel very angry when I thin...

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

A more important antidote to ...

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The ideas by which people . ....

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

In numerous years following t...

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

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When you see reference to a n...

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Marx profoundly affected thos...

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Speeches in our culture are t...

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

The overall effect of the ris...

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Of all the weapons in the Fed...

Of all the weapons in the Federal Reserve arsenal, words were the the most unpredictable in their consequences.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

There can be no question, how...

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

John Galbraith 445 quotes

And there was a deeper, less ...

And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Economic theory is the most p...

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

We now in the United States h...

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Economists are economical, am...

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

John Galbraith 445 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....