Showing posts with label Wednesday Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wednesday Wisdom. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Wednesday Wisdom

"The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil." 
— John Kenneth Galbraith (The Great Crash 1929)

Because I work in HR, very few people are aware that I actually have a degree in economics. While English majors had crushes on Hemingway and Faulkner, my crush was John Kenneth Galbraith. I can honestly say that I loved reading his book The Good Society, a copy of which is in my office. The quote above is from his research of the 1929 crash, but how appropriate it is today.