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The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith
Only by challenging the "conventional wisdom" of the age, could Galbraith or someone like him hope to serve a truly useful role in history. Power here and its role in American decision-making and the role of what I have called "the permanent government" were necessarily for him the objects of that challenge. And today, even better than in the early 1960s, we can understand why.
Only by challenging the "conventional wisdom" of the age, could Galbraith or someone like him hope to serve a truly useful role in history. Power here and its role in American decision-making and the role of what I have called "the permanent government" were necessarily for him the objects of that challenge. And today, even better than in the early 1960s, we can understand why.
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