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Tag: John Kenneth Galbraith

(1908-2006) Canadian-born economist, Harvard professor

Everybody knows

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 19, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories informed electorate, knowledgeTags John Kenneth Galbraith

Freedom vs. the state

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 17, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories libertyTags John Kenneth Galbraith

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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