“While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith , book The New Industrial State

Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XV, Section 2, p. 169

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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006

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