John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Great Depression

Quotes about: Great Depression

• There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Awful, Common, Great Depression

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.212, Princeton University Press

• The years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Years, Knowing, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

• [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Peaceful

  Source: progressive.org

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