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John Kenneth Galbraith, a longtime economics professor, onetime ambassador to India, and five-time presidential adviser, died on May 29 in Mount Auburn Hospital...
...Galbraith, who joined the Harvard faculty in 1934 fresh from earning his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, retired in 1975 as the Warburg professor of economics, but he remained a presence on and around the University’s campus until his death...
...derisively calls it-is hardly a new role for Harvard's Warburg Professor of Economics ... He has become an all-purpose critic in the U.S. and beyond, jousting with as many demons as a latter-day Vishnu, the many-armed Hindu god of a thousand names ... The foundations for Galbraith's current fame-or notoriety-were laid a decade ago with publication of [his book] The Affluent Society ... With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector-housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare-it established clear guideposts for both...
...Carter for the Democratic nomination. Paul V. Holtzman ’83 says “there was certainly a lot of hometown support” for Kennedy at Harvard.But after Carter secured the Democratic nomination, many of Harvard’s intellectual heavyweights endorsed him, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Samuel P. Huntington, and Richard E. Neustadt.But in November, Ronald Reagan won the presidency by a landslide. That was an outcome few Harvard students had anticipated.There were only about 100 Reagan supporters on campus, Robert O. Boorstin ’81 says. And, on a predominately liberal campus, they were...
Memorial Church resounded with the sound of hymns and fond tributes last Wednesday at a service in remembrance of longtime Harvard professor and influential economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith...