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Apr 30, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure.
Ambassador Galbraith was known to be a close friend of President John F. Kennedy, who valued his intellect as well as his clarity of communication. In 1961 Kennedy appointed him ambassador to India and he remained there until 1963. During his time in India, he formed a close relationship with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and remained ...
Apr 30, 2006 · Longtime Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent liberal economist who was a popular instructor here for more than three decades, has died at age 97. He had been admitted to Mount ...
Jun 1, 2006 · KSG Forum videos: People came from near and far to Harvard May 31 to pay tribute to a man who was probably the most famous as well as the tallest economist of the second half of the 20th century, John Kenneth Galbraith, who died April 29 at the age of 97. At a service in the Memorial Church, a succession of speakers, most of them celebrities in ...
May 1, 2006 · VPR’s Susan Keese reports: (Keese) It was 1947 when John Kenneth Galbraith bought an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt road on the Townshend/Newfane line. Galbraith’s son Peter Galbraith says his father did much of his writing there. (Peter Galbraith) “Particularly in the 1950s and sixties you could get away from things being in Vermont ...
Mar 28, 2005 · The life and times of the world's most famous economist. 3/28/2005 As the rip-roaring 1990s were coming to a close, America's best-known economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, was out of favor. He didn't even receive an invitation to a 2001 conference on the New Economy at Harvard University, blocks from where he lived and where he had taught for decades. Galbraith's...
How did John Kenneth Galbraith die? - Natural causes. Top questions and answers about John Kenneth Galbraith
