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Standing in the foyer of his Francis Ave. home, John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, doled out candy corn, tootsie rolls, and economic forecasts to nighttime visitors...
President Calvin Coolidge assured the country that it could "regard the present with satisfaction and anticipate the future with optimism." His successor, Herbert Hoover, said that the U.S. would soon see the end of poverty. Only a few public figures raised doubts. One of them was Financier Paul Warburg, who warned in March 1929 that unless the Federal Reserve acted to curb speculation, there would be a collapse and "a general depression involving the entire country...
...guest list read like a Who's Who of Camelot, with such notables as former speaker of the House John D. McCormack; John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; and former secretary of defense Robert W. McNamara conspicuous in the crowd...
...believe the enormous fluctuation in the economy has something to do with it. They see the inflation, and the price of gold going up and they want to understand it," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said earlier this week...
...wouldn't have as many students if the course were taught in lectures only," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, said yesterday. "We're also called Social Analysis 10 this year, so we picked up a few more because of the Core," he added...