John Kenneth Galbraith foi um economista, filósofo e escritor estado-unidense, conhecido por suas posições keynesianas.
Galbraith foi cético perante as extravagâncias da "teoria econômica quando não justificadas pelos dados empíricos". Por exemplo, no seu livro intitulado "In The New Industrial State" , afirma que muito poucas indústrias nos Estados Unidos enquadram-se no modelo da concorrência perfeita.
Conhecido por suas posições liberais-sociais, foi assessor econômico do presidente John Kennedy e publicou diversos livros, entre os quais The Affluent Society , no ano de 1958, em que critica a política econômica dos Estados Unidos. Aposentado como professor universitário em 1957, publicou em 1981 a autobiografia A Life in Our Times: Memoirs .
“A política não é a arte do possível. Ela consiste em escolher entre o desagradável e o desastroso.”
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
carta a John F. Kennedy (02-mar-1962), conforme "Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal" (1969)
nothing more effectively limits freedom, including freedom of expression, as the total lack of money
citado em "Moving Frontiers: Economic Restructuring, Regional Development, and Emerging Networks" - Página 68, de Juan R. Cuadrado Roura, Peter Nijkamp, Pere Salva - Publicado por Avebury, 1994, ISBN 1856289052, 9781856289054 - 336 páginas
“A economia é extremamente útil para empregar economistas.”
Fonte: Revista Caras http://www.caras.com.br/, 16 de agosto de 2006
“O poder não é algo que possa ser assumido e posto de lado como a roupa interior.”
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear
"The new industrial state" - página 127, John Kenneth Galbraith - Houghton Mifflin, 1967 - 427 páginas
"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Contexto: 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.”
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 44
Fonte: 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
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXIV, Section 1, p. 275
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 161
Introduction, Section I, p. x
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 11, p. 323
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IV, The Bank, p. 30
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 324
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Fonte: 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)
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 5, p. 137
