The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.
John Kenneth GalbraithEconomists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to society. The income reflects the high total utility of a livelihood to a person.
John Kenneth Galbraith