Word: galbraith
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Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have...
While at Harvard, Lady Jackson is mainly concerned with helping John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, in his seminar on underdeveloped countries, Economics 287. In general, however, her work under the Carnegie Grant concerns both "the studying and propagating of ideas coming up about foreign relations," she explains. "Both Carnegie and I agreed that there are considerable ideas on the subject today, but few ways of projecting them...
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John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, will deliver the fourth lecture in the Harvard Conference on Careers, tonight at 8 p.m., in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. His topic will be "Living and Making a Living...
...Galbraith joined the University faculty in 1948, and he was appointed professor of Economics the next year. As Warburg Professor, he will continue to serve in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Administration...