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Actually, the story of Keynes, who died in 1946, has been told earlier and better by such economists as Sir Roy Harrod, Alvin Hansen, Seymour Harris, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Heilbroner and John Kenneth Galbraith. Where Lekachman differs from them is in his emphasis on Keynes's repeal...
...Justice and now IBM's general counsel, offers ideas. James Allen, New York State's commissioner of education; Dr. Eugene McCarthy of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons; Richard Boone, director of Walter Reuther's Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; and Economists J. K. Galbraith of Harvard and Edwin Kuh of M.I.T. are other sources. When in New York, Bobby often calls on Columbia's Dean David Truman or ex-White House Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, spends hours discussing issues with them by way of clarifying his own thoughts. Constantly on the lookout...
...support most campaign expenses, Galbraith urges providing "every regularly nominated candidate with a public grant of sufficient size to enable him to get his name, merit, if any, and platform before the people...
...addition to these changes, Galbraith asks that a limit be established on the candidate's contribution to his own campaign. The limit, should "in no case [exceed] a few hundred dollars and in most cases [be] much less; the candidates should also be required "to keep such current records as would allow for a rapid and full audit of their expenditures. Such an audit might be instituted in instances of alleged or suspected violation or as a general enforcement measure during the course of the campaign...
Violation of Galbraith's proposal would result in "severe penalties." "Conviction," he wrote, "should involved disqualification from public office for the term for which the candidate was elected...