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
“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”
Attributed without source
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)
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)
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 1, Section I, p. 13
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter I, Section 3, p. 6
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IX, The Price, p. 106
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXVIII, Section 3, p. 321
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
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section I, p. 68
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section IV, p. 21
“The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.”
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 10, p. 293
“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter III, Banks, p. 18
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VI, The Crash, p. 104
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 4
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
“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
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXII, Section 4, p. 255
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter V, Section 2, p. 49
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VI, Section 2, p. 62
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)
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 22
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VIII, Aftermath I, Section III, p. 141
Fonte: 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.”
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter IV, Section 2, p. 37
“Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.”
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VIII, Section 5, p. 96
“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”
The Guardian [UK] (28 July 1989)
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
“We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.”
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 9, Section VI, p. 113
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 18, Section I, p. 199
The New York Times Magazine (9 October 1960)
