Fuente: Herrera Carles, Humberto. 1500 Frases, pensamientos para la vida. Editor Lulu.com. ISBN 9781105216565. p. 83.
Frases célebres de John Kenneth Galbraith
Original: «The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it».
Fuente: LoCascio, Vincent R. The Monetary Elite Vs. Gold's Honest Discipline. Editorial Weltanschauung Financial Press, 2005. ISBN 9780976842705. p. 21. https://books.google.es/books?id=BVDVgklbzqgC&pg=PA53&dq=ISBN%09097684270X,+9780976842705&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiEh6CVmNzgAhVHyxoKHbXMCXUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20study%20of%20money%2C%20above%20all%20other%20fields%20in%20economics%2C%20is%20the%20one%20in%20which%20complexity%20is%20used%20to%20disguise%20truth%20or%20to%20evade%20truth%2C%20not%20to%20reveal%20it.&f=false
“El proceso mediante el cual los bancos crean dinero, es tan simple, que la mente lo rechaza.”
Fuente: ¿Cómo salir de pobre y no morir en el intento? - Finanzas personales. Autor y editor Miquel J. Pavon Besalu. ISBN 9781291043365. p. 173. https://books.google.es/books?id=4BKF9D-b3t8C&pg=PA173&dq=El+proceso+mediante+el+cual+los+bancos+crean+dinero,+es+tan+simple,+que+la+mente+lo+rechaza.+John+Kenneth+Galbraith&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinltymmdzgAhWK2OAKHeSUAdQQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=El%20proceso%20mediante%20el%20cual%20los%20bancos%20crean%20dinero%2C%20es%20tan%20simple%2C%20que%20la%20mente%20lo%20rechaza.%20John%20Kenneth%20Galbraith&f=false
“Para manipular eficazmente a la gente es necesario hacer creer a todos que nadie les manipula.”
Fuente: Bermejo, Pedro. Neuroeconomía: Cómo piensan las empresas. Acción Empresarial. LID Editorial, 2014. ISBN 9788483569610. https://books.google.es/books?id=6pmTBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT22&dq=Para+manipular+eficazmente+a+la+gente+es+necesario+hacer+creer+a+todos+que+nadie+les+manipula.+John+Kenneth+Galbraith&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK35znmdzgAhVEx4UKHXeUA-4Q6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=Para%20manipular%20eficazmente%20a%20la%20gente%20es%20necesario%20hacer%20creer%20a%20todos%20que%20nadie%20les%20manipula.%20John%20Kenneth%20Galbraith&f=false
Original: «I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people».
Fuente: Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Volumen 61. Contribuidores Harvard Alumni Association, Associated Harvard Clubs. Editor Harvard Alumni Association, 1958. p. 391.
“La visión convencional sirve para protegernos del doloroso trabajo de pensar.”
Original: «The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking».
Fuente: Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks: Global Best Practices: Report of a Symposium. Autores National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century. Editor Charles W. Wessner. Editorial National Academies Press, 2009. ISBN 9780309145466. p. 81. https://books.google.es/books?id=w741v2ttOYAC&pg=PA81&dq=The+conventional+view+serves+to+protect+us+from+the+painful+job+of+thinking&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicqMSymtzgAhVLxoUKHVMpAKEQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20conventional%20view%20serves%20to%20protect%20us%20from%20the%20painful%20job%20of%20thinking&f=false
Original: «The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness».
Fuente: Osenton, Tom. Boomer Destiny: Leading the U.S. through the Worst Crisis Since the Great Depression. Edición reimpresa. Editorial ABC-CLIO, 2009. ISBN 9780313356056. p. 103. https://books.google.es/books?id=9EXyCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103&dq=The+modern+conservative+is+engaged+in+one+of+man%27s+oldest+exercises+in+moral+philosophy;+that+is,+the+search+for+a+superior+moral+justification+for+selfishness&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwr6arm9zgAhXcAmMBHbZmDukQ6AEIODAC#v=onepage&q&f=false
Original: «Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true».
Fuente: Sawhney, Clifford. Book of Common and Uncommon Proverbs. Editorial Pustak Mahal, 2004. ISBN 9788122308549. https://books.google.es/books?id=NvyL-d3lcwUC&pg=PT100&dq=Under+capitalism,+man+exploits+man;+while+under+socialism+just+the+reverse+is+true&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgqJGrndzgAhVpAWMBHc7OD-oQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Under%20capitalism%2C%20man%20exploits%20man%3B%20while%20under%20socialism%20just%20the%20reverse%20is%20true&f=false
John Kenneth Galbraith: Frases en inglés
"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Contexto: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”
Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 2, p. 44
Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter X, Cause and Consequence, p. 199
BBC TV Adaptation, Episode 1
The Age of Uncertainty (1977)
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
Fuente: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258
Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXIV, Section 1, p. 275
Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XIII, Section 1, p. 149
Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 1
"Corporate Man," The New York Times (22 January 1984)
Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 161
Introduction, Section I, p. x
Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
“Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.”
Ambassador's Journal (1969), p. 84 http://books.google.com/books?id=J1NCAAAAIAAJ&q="meetings+are+a+great+trap"+"they+are+indispensable+when+you+don't+want+to+do+anything"&pg=PA84#v=onepage
“A constant in the history of money is that every remedy is reliably a source of new abuse.”
Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter II, Of Coins and Treasure
“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it becameNew York, London or Tokyo.”
Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 11, p. 323
Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IV, The Bank, p. 30
The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)
Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 324
“With the American failure came world failure.”
Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XX, Where It Went, p. 293
"H.L. Mencken," The Washington Post (14 September 1980); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)
“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.”
Interview with Lorie Conway (1997) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004) ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield. Conway saw these words on a framed needlepoint, entitled "Galbraith's First Law," at Galbraith's home
Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section IV, p 115
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
The New York Times Magazine (7 June 1970)
Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VII, Section 2, p. 76
“Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.”
Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter XIV, When The Money Stopped, p. 192
“If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.”
Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 5, p. 137