There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.


A History of Economics: The Past as the Present (ed. Hamish Hamilton, 1987)

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a...

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a...

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a...

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a...