John Kenneth Galbraith
Economist (1908 to 2006) whose The Affluent Society (1958) coined "the conventional wisdom" and argued that rich societies manufacture private wants while starving public goods.
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Their wordsBecause familiarity is such an important test of acceptability, the acceptable ideas have great stability.
↗The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
↗The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsIn the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
↗The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsAs a society becomes increasingly affluent, wants are increasingly created by the process by which they are satisfied.
↗The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, 1958)archive.org All 4 from this book