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...their scholarship more than for their teaching ability. Worse than that they're inaccessible to undergraduates. Even with such a tired theme, the Selective Guide staff even has trouble expressing itself clearly. Read this sentence carefully: "Those who envision having coffee and doughnuts with the likes of John Kenneth Galbraith should keep in mind that inaccessibility plagues Harvard professors in roughly inverse proportion to their status...
Economists debate to this day about what caused the Great Depression. A prevailing view, persuasively argued by John Kenneth Galbraith, is that the technological increases in productivity throughout the 1920s (up 43% per factory man-hour) were not matched by increases in wages and thus in the public's capacity to consume (factory pay rose less than 20%). The collapse of the overinflated stock market therefore started a downward spiral in both demand and the ability to pay. Conservative economists like Milton Friedman, on the other hand, blame the Federal Reserve System for failing to expand the money supply...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and William F. Buckley, editor of the National Review, faced off last week in a debate of the Reagan administration's economic program. The verbal battle drew a capacity crowd of 1200 to Sanders Theater, and hundreds of others had to be turned away. But for those who missed the heated and often humorous exchanges, the debate will be broadcast on Buckley's "Firing Line" television program January...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, said that "the Reagan Administration is continuing to take care...
...Harvard Conservative Club sponsored the debate, which featured Buckley, Galbraith, Bleiburg, Laffer, Robert Lekachman, an economist from Columbia University, and four Harvard students.CrimsonTimothy W. PlassWILLIAM F. BUCKLEY's [left] "conservative black" suit and JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH's [right] "pale grey liberal" suit set the tone for last night's debate at Sanders Theater of the Reagan administration's economic policies. JOHN OAKES [center], former editorial page editor of The New York Times, looks...