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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, Mass. At 6 ft. 8 in., 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 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, The Affluent...
Longtime Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent liberal economist who was a popular instructor here for more than three decades, has died...
...been admitted to Mount Auburn Hospital nearly two weeks ago, and he died there of natural causes at 9:15 p.m. on Saturday night, according to his son, Alan Galbraith...
...Ontario-born Galbraith taught at Harvard from 1934 to 1939, and then returned to the school...
...Galbraith retired from Harvard in 1975. The following year, the Harvard Lampoon awarded Galbraith the “Funniest Professor of the Century Award” and a $12,000 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, The Crimson reported at the time...