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The conventional wisdom is overturned by the march of events, not by ideas
Drawn from what John Kenneth Galbraith said
What John Kenneth Galbraith actually said
- John Kenneth Galbraith Economist (1908 to 2006) whose The Affluent Society (1958)…
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Where this was said
↗The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)archive.org
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