Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised.

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

Topics: America And Americans Quotes, Economics Quotes

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so...

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has...

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so...

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so...

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the...

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the...

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

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

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

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than...

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen...

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or...

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the...

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have...

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?