
John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006)
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
War remains the decisive human failure.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
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.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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