John Kenneth Galbraith was 6'9"

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Oct. 15,1908 - April 29, 2006

He was very tall.

He also wrote The Affluent Society. Ayn Rand hated it.

[hamilton]

"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.

[afro poppa]

He was apparently a Guelph grad

[timouse]

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.