John Kenneth Galbraith
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Galbraith was an institutionalist economist who taught at Harvard for half a century and wrote bestsellers from the 1950s to the 2000s.
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9 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 15 Oct 1908, Iona Station, Ontario, Canada (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 29 Apr 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 97 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: BSc in agriculture, Ontario Agricultural College (1931); MS and PhD in agricultural economics, UC Berkeley (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Because familiarity makes ideas acceptable, accepted ideas are very stable (opens korrents.com)
“Because familiarity is such an important test of acceptability, the acceptable ideas have great stability.”
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The conventional wisdom is overturned by the march of events, not by ideas (opens korrents.com)
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
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In an affluent society there is no useful line between luxuries and necessities (opens korrents.com)
“In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.”
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Because familiarity makes ideas acceptable, accepted ideas are very stable (opens korrents.com)