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...John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of economics emeritus, agrees. "It is a difficult decision," he says--a decision all the more complicated at a University where the phrase "lifetime post" is so highly valued...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: With Optional Retirement, What Will Harvard's Faculty Look like in 2000? | 2/5/1991 | See Source »

...politicians argued that new taxes were needed to finance the fighting. "We've got to live in the real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100,000. "Some of our poorest people are fighting the war," Galbraith said. "I would like to see our richest people pay for it. It would be a fine expression of democratic will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fight Now, Pay Later | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Trainor and other policy analysts, notibly Walburg Professor of Economics emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, say that policy makers' inattention to military history and scholarship has led them astray. For instance, Galbraith and Trainor both say the Administration is relying too heavily on the use of air power against the enemy--a tactic that proved largely ineffective during World War II and Vietnam...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: When War Strikes, Washington Calls | 2/1/1991 | See Source »

Says Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith, who has written about military strategy in World War II, "The sanctions should have been given longer to work...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Scholars Consider A Post-War Era | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

Some Tories in the genteel spa town of Cheltenham staged a rebellion when | they discovered that the candidate designated to run in the next general election is black. A local party member, Bill Galbraith, reportedly described nominee John Taylor, 38, a lawyer and a former government adviser on race relations, as "a bloody nigger." Others claimed that the nomination had been "bulldozed" through by a national party eager to elect its first nonwhite representative since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Elusive Harmony | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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