Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Born: October 15, 1908
Died: April 29, 2006 (aged 97)
Bio: John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism.
Known for:
- The Affluent Society (1958)
- The Great Crash, 1929 (1954)
- The New Industrial State (1967)
- American Capitalism (1952)
- The Economics of Innocent Fraud (2004)
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