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
Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section VIII, p 192
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 75
“One of the uses of depression is the exposure of what auditors fail to find.”
Chapter VII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath I, Section II, p 135
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
“Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.”
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section IV, p 155
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Article in The Saturday Evening Post, 1968 http://books.google.com/books?id=rxsfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+drive+toward+complex+technical+achievement+offers+a+clue+to+why+the+U.S.+is+good+at+space+gadgetry+and+bad+at+slum+problems%22&pg=PA86
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 9, p. 258
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XV, Section 2, p. 169
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 6, Section III, p. 63
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section VII, p. 85
Fonte: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section VI, p. 26
“Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.”
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXXIII, Section 4, p. 375
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XVI, Section 2, p. 182
“Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?”
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter VI, An Instrument of Revolution, p. 62
“Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?”
Fonte: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 180
Chapter V https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, The Crash, Section VIII, p. 106
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
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)
Fonte: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VI, Section 7, p. 71
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 285
“The values of a society totally preoccupied with making money are not altogether reassuring.”
Fonte: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section IV, p. 76
The Age of Uncertainty (1977), BBC Television series (also published in book form, non verbatim version)
Quoted by Graham Allison , in A Conversation with Henry Kissinger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPqxISYxjcI
The United States (1971)
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
Fonte: Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section II, p 110
“The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.”
Fonte: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XI, The Fall, p. 136
"Free Market Fraud" http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/FreeMarketFraudGalbraith.html, The Progressive (January 1999)
