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
In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
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.
Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.