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Furthermore, student members of the ACSR suspected that Putnam and other Corporation members who agreed with him were pressuring Milton Katz. Stimson Professor of Law and Chairman of the ACSR...
...good of all. Now this assumption, as handy as it might be for the world's voracious strivers, presents a considerable affront to those who think greed is a bad thing, among whom, I suspect, is Galbraith. So while Adam Smith and his spirtual heirs, from Alfred Marshall to Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods, but society needs a counterforce to the less noble parts of man's character--a democratically elected government. In The Affluent Society, Galbraith...
...city of Berkeley, in the days before Messrs. Jarvis and Gann' and Professor Milton Friedman made the spending of money on urban sanitation an infringement of personal liberty, was sparkling clean and covered with geraniums....Especially in the filthy snows of winter, Cambridge was a dismal contrast. Harvard's random architecture, drifting incoherently into the city, did little for one's soul. Old Harvard men are known to love it. There is no accounting for taste...
This affluent society has two celebrity economists. Milton Friedman is the short conservative one. The other, of course, is the 6-ft. 8-in. liberal John Kenneth Galbraith. The styles of these distinguished gentlemen also differ greatly. Wreathed in affability, Friedman delivers the chilly news that life is not fair. In contrast, Galbraith assumes the demeanor of a hanging judge and drolly intimates that life does not have to be as unfair as Professor Friedman says...
Cooke's city editor, Milton Coleman, also black, is conscientious, though new on the job. He did not demand-as most editors would have, and all should-to know the names of the anonymous child and his mother. He believed Cooke's story that her own life was in danger. Bob Woodward, the metropolitan editor, believed the story too-which is surprising, since in the bestselling Watergate books that made millionaires of Woodward and his partner Carl Bernstein, he made such a proud point of how every Watergate detail had to be doubly verified by a second source...