This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and politics because the firm is safely subordinate to the market and the state and for this reason it is safely at the command of the consumer and citizen. Such an economics is not neutral. It is the influential and invaluable ally of those whose exercise of power depends on an acquiescent public. If the state is the executive committee of the great corporation and the planning system, it is partly because neoclassical economics is its instrument for neutralizing the suspicion that this is so.


Power and the Useful Economist (1973)

John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and...

This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and...

This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and...

This is what economics now does. It tells the young and susceptible (and also the old and vulnerable) that economic life has no content of power and...