“It was in World War I that the age-old certainties were lost. Until then aristocrats and capitalists felt secure in their position, and even socialists felt certain in their faith. It was never to be so again. The Age of Uncertainty began.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 5, p. 133

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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