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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-born economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.

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The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Bureaucracy, Corporate, Stills, Take, Technostructure, Term

With the American failure came world failure.

American, Came, Failure, World

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J. F. ] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

Attribute, Franklin, Problem, Roosevelt, Surmounted, Years

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Forecasters, Investing, Kind, Kinds, Know, Two

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

Follette, Lasts, Progressive, Sake

The spirit should never grow old.

Wrinkles, 50Th Birthday, Age, Old, Spirit, Grow

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Denied, Disastrously, Political, Politics, Salutary, Should

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Assured, Humorous, Immortality, Laughter, Mistake, Spectacular

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Colleagues, Economist, Professional, Scholarship, Think, Thinking

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.

Down, Inclined, Laid, Liberty, Speak, Use

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Authors, Contemplating, Easily, Exaggerated, Originality, Work

Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

Country, Milton, Adviser, Friedman, Nothing

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Decision, Dissent, Eloquent, Greater, Taken, Virtue

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

Destruction, Greed, Investing, Privileged, Regularly

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Economists, Employment, Extremely, Government, Home Economics, Useful

War remains the decisive human failure.

Decisive, Human, Humans, Peace, Remains, War

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Banking, Business, Career, Careers, Man, Men

Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.

Agreeable, Important, Know, Knows, Proceeding

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

Becomes, Causes, Economic, Life, Result, Results

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Majority, Organization, Political, Right, Safer

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