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No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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No Politician Can Praise Unemployment Or Inflation,

John Kenneth Galbraith
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.
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