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„Der Wettbewerb liegt schon im Instinkt des Unternehmers.“

John Kenneth Galbraith

Die moderne Industriegesellschaft

„In neuerer Zeit ist Wachstum zum wichtigsten Heilmittel gegen Arbeitslosigkeit geworden.“

John Kenneth Galbraith

Die moderne Industriegesellschaft

„Planung erfordert eine Vielzahl von Einzelinformationen.“

John Kenneth Galbraith

Die moderne Industriegesellschaft

„Und selbst der unerschütterlichste Konservative, der sich nachts nicht auf die Straße wagt, der nur zögernd Wasser trinkt oder Luft einatmet, wird sich jetzt fragen müssen, ob seine persönliche Freiheit wirklich dadurch vergrößert wird, dass man an den öffentlichen Einrichtungen spart.“

John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Gesellschaft im Überfluss, Knaur 1970, S. 17

John Kenneth Galbraith: Zitate auf Englisch

“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”

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"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Kontext: 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.

“Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians," who in effect said this is a complicated issue of seeing how little we can give away, how much we can extract from the other side; it's highly specialized. Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons, the delivery systems, the targeting, the nature of the MIRV and the CRUISE, on down, and the MX. This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.”

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The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 44

“But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with communism, lies the threat to capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Quelle: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter X, Cause and Consequence, p. 199

“Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.”

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BBC TV Adaptation, Episode 1
The Age of Uncertainty (1977)

“People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.”

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The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)

“One must always have in mind one simple fact — there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.”

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Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield

“"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258

“The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXIV, Section 1, p. 275

“The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149

“SOME YEARS, like some poets, and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Quelle: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 1

“Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man… begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization — the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.”

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"Corporate Man," The New York Times (22 January 1984)

“Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 161

“I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Introduction, Section I, p. x
Quelle: 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.”

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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.”

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Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter II, Of Coins and Treasure

“Economics is not an exact science.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 36

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it becameNew York, London or Tokyo.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 11, p. 323

“Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego. It is well no doubt, to reflect on how much one owes to others.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Foreword p. x
The Affluent Society (1958)

“The pioneering instrument of reform was the Bank of England. Of all institutions concerned with economics none has for so long enjoyed such prestige. It is, in all respects, to money as St. Peter's is to Faith.”

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Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IV, The Bank, p. 30

“A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.”

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The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)

“Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 324

“With the American failure came world failure.”

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Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”

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"H.L. Mencken," The Washington Post (14 September 1980); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)

“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”

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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

“Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch 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)