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Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section V, p 184 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“The fact was that American enterprise in the twenties had opened its hospitable arms to an exceptional number of promoters, grafters, swindlers, impostors, and frauds.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section V, p 178 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 8, Section II, p. 87

“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

The Sydney Morning Herald (22 May 1982), as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993), edited by Robert Andrews, p. 972

“Men meet together for many reasons in the course of business. They need to instruct or persuade each other. They must agree on a course of action. They find thinking in public more productive or less painful than thinking in private. But there are at least as many reasons for meetings to transact no business. Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath I, Section IV, p 139 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of organization, come together as oligarchies of their own members.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXXV, Section 2, p. 390

“Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

on Friedman's advising of the Israeli government, "The Private Man and the Public Life; Interview With Galbraith", The Washington Post (26 April 1981)

“It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the disturbing voices of doubt be muted and that there be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.”

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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 V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section II, p. 70

“In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful."”

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The press was busy printing money.
Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter V, Of Paper, p. 54

“Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 5, Section I, p. 47

“That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XII, Section 1, p. 142

“In a community wherepublic services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 18, Section II, p. 203

“I was studying agriculture, how to produce better chickens, better cattle, better horses — horses in those days — better fruit, better vegetables. This was in the early years of the Great Depression, and the thoughts crossed my mind that there wasn't a hell of a lot of use producing better crops and better livestock if you couldn't sell them, that the real problem of agriculture was not efficiency in production but the problem of whether you could make money after you produced the stuff. So I shifted from the technical side to, first, the study of agricultural economic issues and then on to economics itself.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

Booknotes interview (1994)

“And after they have started the action will always look, as it did to the frightened men in the Federal Reserve Board in February 1929, like a decision in favor of immediate as against ultimate death. As we have seen, the immediate death not only has the disadvantage of being immediate but of identifying the executioner.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter IX https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Cause and Consequence, Section VII, p 190 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XVIII, Section 5, p. 208

“The market had reasserted itself as an impersonal force beyond the power of any person to control, and, while this is the way markets are supposed to be, it was horrible.”

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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 II, p 111 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 27

“Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch The New Industrial State

Quelle: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter X, Section 5, p. 122 (Mr. Galbraith was originally an agricultural economist...)

“There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.”

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Quelle: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter I, Money, p. 4

“In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.”

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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 IV, In Goldman Sachs We Trust, Section VI, p. 63

“The Coolidge Bull market was a remarkable phenomenon. The ruthlessness of its liquidation was, in its own way, equally remarkable.”

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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 I, p 109 The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

The Guardian [UK] (28 July 1989)

“Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a days work out of the little bastards.”

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Quelle: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 30 (On Robert Owen)

“Private enterprise did not get us atomic energy.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith buch Gesellschaft im Überfluss

Quelle: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 25, Section III, p. 274