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✵ 15. október 1908 – 29. április 2006
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John Kenneth Galbraith: Idézetek angolul

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Kontextus: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

Forrás: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 44

“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.”

Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield

“"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.”

John Kenneth Galbraith könyv The Affluent Society

Forrás: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258

“The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.”

John Kenneth Galbraith könyv The New Industrial State

Forrás: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149

“SOME YEARS, like some poets, and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.”

John Kenneth Galbraith könyv The Great Crash, 1929

Forrás: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 1

“I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.”

John Kenneth Galbraith könyv The Great Crash, 1929

Introduction, Section I, p. x
Forrás: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”

Ambassador's Journal (1969), p. 84 http://books.google.com/books?id=J1NCAAAAIAAJ&q="meetings+are+a+great+trap"+"they+are+indispensable+when+you+don't+want+to+do+anything"&pg=PA84#v=onepage

“A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.”

Forrás: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter II, Of Coins and Treasure

“Economics is not an exact science.”

Forrás: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 36

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it becameNew York, London or Tokyo.”

Forrás: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 11, p. 323

“With the American failure came world failure.”

Forrás: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293

“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”

Interview with Lorie Conway (1997) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004) ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield. Conway saw these words on a framed needlepoint, entitled "Galbraith's First Law," at Galbraith's home

“The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning.”

John Kenneth Galbraith könyv The New Industrial State

Forrás: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VII, Section 2, p. 76

“Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.”

Forrás: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 192

“If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.”

Forrás: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 5, p. 137