How did Galbraith critique the 'conventional wisdom'?
My method involved identifying what I called the 'conventional wisdom' – the ideas that are widely accepted because they serve the interests of the powerful and are therefore comfortable. I then subjected these ideas to rigorous examination against observable social and economic realities. The purpose was to expose how these comfortable notions, like the perfect market competition, often masked the actual concentrations of power and the resulting inequalities.
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