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“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.”
 
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John Kenneth Galbraith
 
Name:   John Kenneth Galbraith
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Oct 15, 1908
 
Date of Death:   Apr 29,  2006
 
Profession:   Economist
 
 
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
 
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People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
 
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
 
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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
 
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
 
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