Frasi di John Kenneth Galbraith
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John Kenneth Galbraith è stato un economista, funzionario e diplomatico canadese naturalizzato statunitense.

È stato fra i più celebri e influenti economisti del suo tempo, nonché critico della teoria capitalista tradizionale. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Ottobre 1908 – 29. Aprile 2006
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John Kenneth Galbraith frasi celebri

“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

John Kenneth Galbraith: Frasi in inglese

“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”

Attributed without source
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)

“However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section I, p 144
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 1, Section I, p. 13

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

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXVIII, Section 3, p. 321

“Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy... by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F. D. R. is not surprising.”

As quoted in Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1991), by John Toland, also quoted in "Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II (1995) by Jacob G. Hornberger http://www.fff.org/freedom/0795a.asp

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section IV, p. 21

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

Origine: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 10, p. 293

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter III, Banks, p. 18

“Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VI, The Crash, p. 104

“No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 4

“You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.”

Speech of Adlai Stevenson, Los Angeles (1956), written by Galbraith

“In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter V, Section 2, p. 49

“Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section II, p 110
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading asyndicate that was driving the market down.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Origine: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VIII, Aftermath I, Section III, p. 141

“THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM requires that prices be under effective control. And it seeks the greatest possible influence over what buyers take at the established prices.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XX, Section 1, p. 219 (Caps as per text...)

“Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter IV, Section 2, p. 37

“Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VIII, Section 5, p. 96

“We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section VI, p. 113

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