It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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