The Wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith


	The Wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith

Socratoad

10-18-2008 11:28 AM

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10-18-2008 12:02 PM

gingembre

Hear, hear!

10-18-2008 12:20 PM

mugofcoffee

Where had you been? Long time no see!

10-18-2008 9:35 PM

carrerinyes

Welcome back, Socratoad!

10-19-2008 6:30 AM

abailart

I read 'The Economics of Innocent Fraud', an essay in book form, that was published in 2004 so near to the end of his life. It has much to say for today, backed by a distillation of his experience and wisdom gained therefrom.

10-20-2008 12:25 PM

Socratoad

Hi Mug, hi carrerinyes and the rest of the articulate gang here at Clipmarks. I have not been feeling very well for quite some time and so have not been contributing as I do not feel articulate enough to participate.

With any degree of luck this too shall pass.

10-24-2008 8:11 PM

Kelika

Hope you get to feeling better - we miss you.

5-26-2009 1:21 AM

egoldstein

I hope you are feeling better Socratoad.

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