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...DIED. John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, best-selling Harvard economist and unabashed liberal who spent his career fighting "conventional wisdom," a phrase he coined in 1958; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At 203 cm tall, he was-quite literally-a big thinker. In his examination of the intertwining of economics and politics, he once termed America a "democracy of the fortunate," and his ideas underpinned U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. He was known for his witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

Longtime Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, a popular professor and former Winthrop House resident who has advised five Democratic presidents, died Saturday night at Mount Auburn Hospital...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Century’s ‘Funniest Professor’ Dies at 97 | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...biographer, Richard Parker, accompanied the Galbraith family at the professor’s bedside when he died of natural causes. “It was time. He lived a life that was more than 20 men’s,” Parker said...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Century’s ‘Funniest Professor’ Dies at 97 | 5/1/2006 | See Source »

...addition to his work in his academic discipline, Galbraith also wrote several novels. He told The Crimson in 1989 that he preferred composing fiction over writing economic studies...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

Biographical sketch of Galbraith on the Economics Department website. Videos of Galbraith at Harvard's Institute of Politics...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97 | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

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