{"id":239,"date":"2006-05-02T15:52:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/02\/jk-galbraith\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T20:36:44","slug":"jk-galbraith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/jk-galbraith\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Galbraith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend, if the air is too dirty to breathe, the streets are filthy and the schools bad&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; John Kenneth Galbraith<\/p>\n<p>The economist, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kenneth_Galbraith\">John Kenneth Galbraith <\/a>died yesterday, aged 97. Something of a hero here at Tuppenceworth, Galbraith was a Canadian and an American, an academic, historian, novelist, art critic, memoirist, Ambassador to India, Reith Lecturer, public servant, television presenter, Professor at both Harvard and Cambridge and, he questionably claimed, &#8220;the tallest man in the world&#8221;. His most famous work, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140285199\/qid=1146581463\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_2_1\/026-9813073-0375615\">The Affluent Society <\/a>coined the phrase &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221;. When asked for his views on Richard Nixon, he replied &#8220;I never met him, but apparently he worked for me during the war&#8221;. Much of Kennedy&#8217;s inaugural speech was his work, and he is on record, in recently released documents, as advising Kennedy against involvement in Vietnam, advice which Kennedy concurred with but felt politically unable to follow. He also wrote about the dismal science with a wit which could actually make you laugh out loud, and an authority which would send all but the most intellectually able conservatives scurrying for cover. To live a life even one third as full as his would be a considerable achievement and pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend, if the air is too dirty to breathe, the streets are filthy and the schools bad&#8221; &#8211; John Kenneth Galbraith The economist, John Kenneth Galbraith died yesterday, aged 97. Something of a hero here at Tuppenceworth, Galbraith was a Canadian and an American, an academic, historian, novelist, art critic, memoirist, Ambassador to India, Reith Lecturer, public servant, television presenter, Professor at both Harvard and Cambridge and, he questionably claimed, &#8220;the tallest man in the world&#8221;. His most famous work, The Affluent Society coined the phrase &#8220;conventional wisdom&#8221;. When asked for his views on Richard Nixon, he replied &#8220;I never met him, but apparently he worked for me during the war&#8221;. Much of Kennedy&#8217;s inaugural speech was his work, and he is on record, in recently released documents, as advising Kennedy against involvement in Vietnam, advice which Kennedy concurred with but felt politically unable to follow. He also wrote about the dismal science with a wit which could actually make you laugh out loud, and an authority which would send all but the most intellectually able conservatives scurrying for cover. To live a life even one third as full as his would be a considerable achievement and pleasure.","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}