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Leading a star-studded cast of economic leaders featuring just about everyone but President Reagan, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and William F. Buckley, editor of the National Review, debated the administration's economic program last night before a highly vocal audience of 1200 at Sanders Theater...
...talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond's Brad Bauer, Ed Lashman, Ann Waterflow and Liz Einaudi All will share in a great Christmas bounty. Don't forget Barney Frank, whatever his district, Hit-man Hearns, Sugar Ray and "freeze-framer" Petric, John Kenneth Galbraith, George Will and John Paul Two, Carl Yasztremski, Mark Ptashne and good Brother Blue, Fritz Mondale, Bobby Brustein, Elvis Costello, (the second will direct, the third play Othello), Michael Manley, Jodie Foster and creative Janet Cooke-- Those names will fill up our big Christmas book. To them (thanks to PATCO...
...simple but powerful ideas that have already made a contribution at the international level." Elliot Richardson '41, LL.B. '47 said it was "perhaps the most useful book you will ever read." John Gardner found it "a splendid contribution to our understanding of conflict resolution." And John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics emeritus, concluded. "This is by far the best thing I've ever read about negotiation. It is equally relevant for the individual who would like to keep his friends, property and income and the statesman who would like to keep the peace...
...CYNICAL here might take comfort in the knowledge that both Segal and Brewster were educated at Harvard, and that most of Reich's analysis is really Galbraith without the economics (a concept, admittedly, somemight find as ludicrous as Galbraith without the modesty). They can snort to each other--and rightly so--that each Brewster speech, each Segal movie, each Reich pronouncement, each flattering Israel Shenker Times profile is a triumph of style over content, content still residing somewhere north of the Charles. But it's a triumph nonetheless. And can we ignore it? More than we suspect, Harvard's future...
Traditional Keynesian economists were the sharpest critics. Said John Kenneth Galbraith, a professor emeritus at Harvard: "The Administration has promised vigorous expansion through supply-side incentives in combination with monetary policy that works through high interest rates and a powerful contraction of the economy. This contradiction can only be resolved by divine intervention-a task for the Moral Majority." Adds Walter Heller, who was President Kennedy's chief economist: "Only an ostrich could have missed the contradictions in Reaganomics...