John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  War, Two, Opposites

  Source: www.progressive.org

• Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Class, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “Annals of an Abiding Liberal”, Plume

• What was needed was a policy that increased the supply of money available for use and then ensured its use. Then the state of trade would have to improve.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Use, States, Policy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.251, Princeton University Press

• Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Errors, Optimism, Stupidity

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.15, Princeton University Press

• I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Alternatives, Conflict

  Source: progressive.org

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