John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OCwas a Canadianeconomist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth15 October 1908
CountryUnited States of America
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
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.