No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.
John Kenneth GalbraithIn Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
John Kenneth Galbraith