117 ordspråk av John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith föddes den October 15th 1908 - Canadian-US economist
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 The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

 The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

 The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce

 The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products

 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 known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

 The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

 The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

 The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

 The overwhelming idea I would like to see is some end in Washington to this enormous preoccupation with sex, as it gives an opening for speech to anybody who's had any experience with it,

 The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

 The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

 The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

 The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

 The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane.

 The traveler to the United States will do well to prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.


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