J. K. Galbraith

“Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.”

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”

“In economics, the majority is always wrong.”

“In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for...”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Humour is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention. But it has no persuasive value at all.”

“The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.”