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May. 10th, 2006
Джон Кеннет Гэлбрайт
May. 10th, 2006 09:35 pmНедавно умер Джон Кеннет Гэлбрайт, один из немногих видных левых экономистов (в этой области трудно быть и видным, и левым :-) Один из аспектов его видности было умение признавать ошибки. В своей книге "Богатое общество" (The Affluent Society, 1958, p. 96) он написал:
"Over the centuries those who have been blessed with wealth have developed many remarkably ingenious and persuasive justifications of their good fortune. The instinct of the liberal is to look at these explanations with a rather unyielding eye. Yet in this case the facts are inescapable. It is the increase in output in recent years, not the redistribution of income, which has brought the greatest material increase, the well-being of the average man. And, however suspiciously, the liberal has come to accept the fact."
С тех пор этот факт стал "иещёболее" очевидным.
"Over the centuries those who have been blessed with wealth have developed many remarkably ingenious and persuasive justifications of their good fortune. The instinct of the liberal is to look at these explanations with a rather unyielding eye. Yet in this case the facts are inescapable. It is the increase in output in recent years, not the redistribution of income, which has brought the greatest material increase, the well-being of the average man. And, however suspiciously, the liberal has come to accept the fact."
С тех пор этот факт стал "иещёболее" очевидным.