One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to…

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

1955

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Financial panics and bubbles

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1955

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1, sect. 2.

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