The family which takes its mauve and cerise, air conditioned, power-steered, and power braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that ar… - John Kenneth Galbraith

This was because of a special American commitment to the seeming magic of money creation and its presumptively wondrous economic effects. T

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.

The only remedy, in fact, is an enhanced skepticism that would resolutely associate too evident optimism with probable foolishness and that would not associate intelligence with the acquisition, the deployment, or, for that matter, the administration of large sums of money.