The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Born 1908, Canada. Harvard professor fifty years. Bestselling author of The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. Criticized corporate power and consumer manipulation. Leading institutional economist.
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