Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Oct. 15,1908 - April 29, 2006 He was very tall.He also wrote The Affluent Society. Ayn Rand hated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 "The modern conservative," Galbraith said, "is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."I always did enjoy Galbraith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 He was apparently a Guelph grad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 from the globe and mail... During a 1956 visit to poverty-stricken India, he realized that a society begins to produce "unnecessary" goods as it becomes wealthier, with corporations creating artificial demand for their products through advertising.Following his retirement, Prof. Galbraith remained in Cambridge, Mass., and spent his summers in Newfane, Vt. He continued to criticize prevailing economic thought, attacking control of U.S. politics by the wealthy in 1992's The Culture of Contentment. In The Good Society in 1996, he set forth his vision of a just, equitable society politically organized to help the poor. As recently as 2004, when he was 95, he wrote The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time, an essay arguing that bureaucratic companies manipulate consumers and the government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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