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...experience of advising a nation on its economic policies is about as valuable an experience in public service as an economist could hope to have, Galbraith says. “You ask what is enjoyable about the public service—that is an example,” he says. When he returned to the classroom in 1963, Galbraith says he often drew on his experiences in India in his teaching...
...intrinsic value in escaping the Harvard bubble every now and then and taking work to a larger audience. “I think your teaching is very likely and indeed should be helped by what you learn outside the academic routine,” says John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus, who at 94 is a living example of a legendary public intellectual, having served as a top adviser to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Galbraith says that one of the most valuable experiences of his life was the time he spent during the presidency of John F. Kennedy ’40 as ambassador to India. He tells the story of how he was welcomed to India by then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. “He greeted me, when I presented my credentials, as no ambassador in history,” Galbraith says. “He said, ‘I welcome you as ambassador, but I hope that this will not prevent you from being my economic adviser...
...name that comes up when people talk about famous American universities, but so much of that was the accident of John F. Kennedy and the romance of the press with the Harvard crowd,” Thernstrom says. Henry Kissinger, former Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy and Galbraith are only a few of many former Faculty members who served in the Kennedy administration and in presidential administrations since...
...whose 1966 study Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain won a Pulitzer Prize. They live in a tony neighborhood in Cambridge, Mass., a few blocks from Harvard, on so-called Professors' Row, which real estate agents refer to as the smart street because such high-IQ figures as John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Henry Louis Gates Jr. have called it home. It was a long leap from there back to Manhattan at mid-century...