Blogs about: John Kenneth Galbraith

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Economics is a ...

sebastianantoniorb wrote 1 day ago: Professor Galbraith, economist, speaking in the Peacock Theatre after accepting an honorary degree f … more →

Tags: Quotes, united states, American International Group, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Great Depression, Economic, social sciences, People

Blaming Consumers is a Cop Out27 comments

David Kaib wrote 1 week ago: [Update: On Orhtheory, Jerry Davis object to my comment (which was the first draft of this post) for … more →

Tags: Bangladesh, Labor, Mobilization, progressive fatalism

Assign three spinsters to snipe patrol....

gigoid wrote 2 weeks ago: Ffolkes, And then I woke up…..  What do you think? Will it work as a template? I think it work … more →

Tags: Daily Pearls of Virtual Wisdom, Life, Winnie the Pooh, Poetry, Oscar Wilde, Buddha, Emily Dickinson, Philosophy, Robert Heinlein

"The Conventional View Serves To Protect Us From The Painful Job Of Thinking." --JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH1 comment

youjivinmeturkey wrote 2 weeks ago: -<<(JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH)>>- -{1906-2006}- -<<{CANADIAN ECONOMIST And PUBLIC OFF … more →

Tags: History, Images, Life, Philosophy, Quote'tithth, Quotes, 1900's, 2000s, canadian

What I Read in April 20131 comment

SilverSeason wrote 3 weeks ago: Robert Graves, I Claudius. Graves’ historical novel takes us into the world of the early Caesa … more →

Tags: Abigail Alcott, alcott, Books, David Lodge, Eva LaPlante, Flaubert, Graham Greene, Julian Barnes, List

For Whom the World Toils....

thepressurevalve59 wrote 4 weeks ago: Today’s lesson children is history. Specifically a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith. In case … more →

Tags: Politics, economic terrorism, Galbraith, Wall Street, Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, Canada, Uganda, Hamptons

Don’t count gold out: it may be the last man standing1 comment

vivekkaul wrote 1 month ago: Vivek Kaul At the very outset let me confess that this has been a difficult piece to write. When eve … more →

Tags: Analysis, financial crisis, firstpost, Gold, Anti-Fragile, Bill Bonner, Daniel Kahneman, James Rickards, John Cassidy

Plato and the Healthy Community

greghorsman wrote 1 month ago: Athens and Sparta, two of the most powerful Greek city-states, had fought as allies in the Greco-Per … more →

Tags: Global economy, economic inequality, Objectivism Lost and an Age of Disillusionment, Plato, friedrich hayek, Milton Friedman, Extreme individualism

Quote of the Day

wjjhoge wrote 1 month ago: Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, … more →

Tags: Philosophy

Springwater Park is now in an exceptionally creative time

Les Stewart wrote 1 month ago: The possibilities are much more now than before Camp Nibi (native camp at Springwater Park) happened … more →

Tags: Springwater Provincial Park, First Nations, Camp Nibi

snippetysnippets wrote 1 month ago: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy … more →

Tags: Quotes, Morality, Quote, John Galbraith, conservatism, Conservative, selfishness

On The Overspent American

ohalabieh wrote 1 month ago: I recently finished reading The Overspent American – Upscaling, Downshifting and the New Consu … more →

Tags: Finance, Finance 2, omar halabieh, Values, Personal, Consumer Behavior, consumption, credit, Debt

New tricks for old dogs.....6 comments

gigoid wrote 1 month ago: Ffolkes, As he stepped aboard the waiting train, he turned to look back at her, a small, forlorn fig … more →

Tags: Daily Pearls of Virtual Wisdom, Life, Poetry, Oscar Wilde, thomas moore, Philosophy, Zippy the Pinhead, reality, Society

Easter and Eostre, Germanic goddess

Common Threads wrote 1 month ago: In the Christian tradition, it is Easter – named after Eostre, the Germanic Goddess of Fertility and … more →

Tags: Economics and Politics - unchanged from the 19th Centur, natural capital, Civil Society, Finance, Politics and how we are governed, Economics, LinkedIn, Maslow, Cameron

Friday afternoons in Halifax

S.J. Hines wrote 2 months ago: We woke up to another 10cm of snow this morning – making it about 40cms of new snow since last … more →

Tags: Culture, environment, Philosophy, Photography, gentrification, Suburbia, post-modern, Progress, Halifax

What is Libertarianism all about?

RightFromYaad wrote 2 months ago: For the link to the web address source of this essay CLICK HERE (LewRockwell.com) This essay is base … more →

Tags: Right From Yaad, Politics, Articles/Columns from US sources, capitalism, Liberty, libertarianism, Myth, Murray Rothbard, Truth

Why We Think What We Think

Arlen Grossman wrote 2 months ago: BPR Quote of the Day: “What is thought to be the responsible public opinion is, at any given t … more →

Tags: media, political cartoon, Quotations, corporate technostructure, Don Addis

Let’s Bring Back American Jobs2 comments

populareconomicsblog wrote 2 months ago: Popular Economics Weekly It’s well-known that American job formation isn’t keeping up with economic … more →

Tags: Weekly Financial News, Keynesian economics, Macro Economics, Consumers, Economy, Politics, corporate profits, unemployment report, labor productivity

Lapham's Quarterly Fall 2011, The Future1 comment

JohnRH wrote 2 months ago: I’m playing catch-up on this one.  It is the favorite Quarterly of a scholarly, well-read frie … more →

Tags: Books, Economics, Individual Rights, Lapham's Quarterly, Literature, News and politics, Non-Fiction, Opinion, Philosophy


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