Frases de John Kenneth Galbraith (215 citas, página 4)

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“Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

Fuente: Herrera Carles, Humberto. 1500 Frases, pensamientos para la vida. Editor Lulu.com. ISBN 9781105216565. p. 83.

“El estudio del tema del dinero, por encima de otros campos económicos, es el tema en el cual la complejidad se utiliza para disfrazar la verdad o para evadirla, en vez de revelarla.”

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.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“Me preocupa nuestra tendencia a invertir en exceso en las cosas y a invertir menos en las personas.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“El conservador moderno se dedica a uno de los ejercicios más antiguos del hombre en la filosofía moral; es decir, a la búsqueda de una justificación moral superior para el egoísmo.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“Bajo el capitalismo, el hombre explota al hombre; mientras que bajo el socialismo es justo lo contrario.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”

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Attributed without source
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975)

“However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section I, p 144
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Fuente: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 1, Section I, p. 13

“In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter I, Section 3, p. 6

“Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.”

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Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IX, The Price, p. 106

“Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXVIII, Section 3, p. 321

“Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy... by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F. D. R. is not surprising.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

As quoted in Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1991), by John Toland, also quoted in "Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II (1995) by Jacob G. Hornberger http://www.fff.org/freedom/0795a.asp

“To a few alarmed observers it seemed as though Wall Street were by way of devouring all the money of the entire world. However, in accordance with the cultural practice, as the summer passed, the sound and responsible spokesmen decried not the increase in brokers' loans, but those who insisted on attaching significance to this trend.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section I, p. 68

“There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith

The Guardian [UK] (23 May 1992)

“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Affluent Society

Fuente: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section IV, p. 21

“The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.”

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Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 10, p. 293

“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.”

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Fuente: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter III, Banks, p. 18

“Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VI, The Crash, p. 104

“No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter I, A Year To Remember, p. 4

“Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.”

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The Ashes of Capitalism and the Ashes of Communism (1986)

“You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.”

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Speech of Adlai Stevenson, Los Angeles (1956), written by Galbraith

“In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also, unfortunately, when there is just enough.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXII, Section 4, p. 255

“In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter V, Section 2, p. 49

“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The New Industrial State

Fuente: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter VI, Section 2, p. 62

“Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Chapter VI https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Things Become More Serious, Section II, p 110
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)

“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.”

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Fuente: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 1, p. 22

“In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading asyndicate that was driving the market down.”

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John Kenneth Galbraith libro The Great Crash, 1929

Fuente: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VIII, Aftermath I, Section III, p. 141