Posts Tagged ‘John Kenneth Galbraith’

Quote of the day, April 2

April 2, 2017

John Kenneth Galbraith, from The Great Crash 1929

“There is … the slightly more subtle conviction that economic life is governed by an inevitable rhythm. After a certain time prosperity destroys itself and depression corrects itself. In 1929 prosperity, in accordance with the dictates of the business cycle, had run its course.”

 

Quote of the day, March 12

March 13, 2014

John Kenneth Galbraith, on politics (1962)

“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”