“Foresight is an imperfect thing — all prevision in economics is imperfect.”

—  John Kenneth Galbraith

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIX, The New Economics At High Noon, p. 269

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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