Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.
John Kenneth GalbraithRalph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.
John Kenneth GalbraithThis is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe years of the Great Depression were a superb time for economists because people not knowing what could be done or what should be done would always assume that maybe an economist had the answer. If you were just a lawyer in Washington, you were nobody. But if you were an economist, you might have the answer.
John Kenneth Galbraith