John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Government

• Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Men

• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Deterioration, Use

• It is the good fortune of the affluent country that the opportunity cost of economic discussion is low and hence it can afford all kinds.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Opportunity, Cost

  1971 Economics, Peace, and Laughter.

• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Differences

  "The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism". "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book edited by John M. Whiteley, 1986.

• I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Affection, Understood

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Women, Men Women

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Milton, Adviser

  "The Private Man and the Public Life; Interview With Galbraith". The Washington Post, April 26, 1981.

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