John Kenneth Galbraith

United States
15 Oct 1908 // 29 Apr 2006
Economist

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People want to be head of General Motors, General Electric... they want those jobs certainly for the income that is returned. But the income is itself a measure of the prestige and power, authority, that goes with achieving those positions.
I would most like to be remembered for bringing emphasis to an economic structure in which the characteristic organization is the great corporation rather than the competitive enterprise and of seeing economic life as a bipolar phenomenon.
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