Origine: Da L'economia della truffa, Rizzoli, 2004.
John Kenneth Galbraith frasi celebri
Origine: Citato in Al Gore, La Scelta, pag. 350.
Origine: Citato in Panorama del 7 maggio 2009, p. 103.
Origine: Da American Capitalism, 1952.
“L'economia è estremamente utile come forma di lavoro per gli economisti.”
Origine: Citato in Focus n. 104, p. 188.
John Kenneth Galbraith Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Da Discorso sulle scienze e sulle arti.
Origine: Da Storia dell'economia, 1987.
Origine: Citato in Ralf Dahrendorf, Erasmiani, traduzione di M. Sampaolo, p. 175.
“Nella società opulenta non si può fare nessuna valida distinzione tra i lussi e le necessità.”
Origine: Da La società opulenta.
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 114, p. 151.
Origine: Da Il grande crollo, 1954.
John Kenneth Galbraith: Frasi in inglese
"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Contesto: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”
Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 44
Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter X, Cause and Consequence, p. 199
BBC TV Adaptation, Episode 1
The Age of Uncertainty (1977)
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258
Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXIV, Section 1, p. 275
Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149
Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 1
"Corporate Man," The New York Times (22 January 1984)
Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 161
Introduction, Section I, p. x
Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
“Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
Ambassador's Journal (1969), p. 84 http://books.google.com/books?id=J1NCAAAAIAAJ&q="meetings+are+a+great+trap"+"they+are+indispensable+when+you+don't+want+to+do+anything"&pg=PA84#v=onepage
“A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.”
Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter II, Of Coins and Treasure
“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it becameNew York, London or Tokyo.”
Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 11, p. 323
Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IV, The Bank, p. 30
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 324
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
"H.L. Mencken," The Washington Post (14 September 1980); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
Interview with Lorie Conway (1997) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004) ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield. Conway saw these words on a framed needlepoint, entitled "Galbraith's First Law," at Galbraith's home
Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section IV, p 115
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
The New York Times Magazine (7 June 1970)
Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VII, Section 2, p. 76
“Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.”
Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 192
“If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.”
Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 5, p. 137