It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for… — John Kenneth Galbraith

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

The Affluent Society · 1958
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Citation
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 2, sect. 1.