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

“Moreover, regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age — after a matter of ten or fifteen years — they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section VI, p 165
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.”

Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 183-184.

“The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 18, Section II, p. 201

“At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.”

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 X, Cause and Consequence, p. 190

“By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter III, Section 5, p. 32

“Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 17, Section I, p. 190

“It is in the long run that the corporation lives.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Origine: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 15, Section IV, p. 172

“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Introduction, Section I, p. ix
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.”

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. 5

“Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.”

Origine: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter VIII, The Great Compromise, p. 92

“If a man be subject to the authority of another, he can at least ask that it not be an occasion for glee.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXV, Section 2, p. 293 (1985)

“Should there be sacrifice, as always in the mature corporation, it is not suffered by those who agree to it.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXII, Section 4, p. 262 (1985)

“Nothing so effectively economizes effort and intelligence, as distinct from anxiety, as the knowledge that nothing can be done.”

John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Origine: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VIII, Section 1, p. 91 (1985)

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