'John Kenneth Galbraith': The Presidents' Man
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/books/review/27FRANKL.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By THOMAS FRANK
Published: February 27, 2005
OPTIMISTIC superstition with regard to all things economic is a
typically American folly, as vigorous and unrepentant today as it was
in 1929. We shower high honors on any author who can repackage the
comforting idea that the free market is a democratic expression of the
popular will; we pay an army of lecturers to persuade us that each new
corporate cost-cutting initiative is an unprecedented victory for the
little guy; and we support an entire cable news channel that limns the
wonders of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
His Life, His Politics, His Economics.
By Richard Parker.
Illustrated. 820 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $35.
JK Galbraith
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