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No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Struggle, Giving, Choices

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Errors, Choices, Investing
John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.351, Princeton University Press

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Wall, Decision, Choices
John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Choices, Decision, Usual
"Years of the Modern". Book by J.W. Chase, 1949.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

John Kenneth Galbraith
Peace, Discovery, Choices
"Years of the Modern". Book by by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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