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
With the American failure came world failure.
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.
This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from
In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but 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.