Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Galbraith quote In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Galbraith quote Is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
Galbraith quote Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Galbraith quote Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Galbraith quote Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Galbraith quote Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
Galbraith quote There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Galbraith quote Biography
Economist, and this is his law!