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Those who have signed the petition include Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 and Du Bois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates...
...Galbraith has enjoyed a long career as an economist, writer, academic and public servant. Born in Canada in 1908, he taught economics at Harvard from 1934 to 1939 and from 1949 and to 1975, except for time he devoted to government service...
...adviser to President John F. Kennedy '40, Galbraith served as U.S. ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963. Galbraith also authored several widely read books, including his popular The Affluent Society, which was first published...
...this and other books, Galbraith argued for a Keynesian approach to economics and public policy. He has advocated government spending to fight unemployment and poverty...
...Galbraith has remained vocal and active in his later years. Last November, he gave a speech sponsored by the College Democrats. Also in November, he lent his support to a Harvard student's petition to remove a U.S. naval base from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...