“THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.”

—  John Kenneth Galbraith , book The New Industrial State

Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XX, Section 1, p. 219 (Caps as per text...)

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