Archivo etiqueta «Economista»
By George F. Will (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/05/06):
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist who died last week in his 98th year, has been justly celebrated for his wit, fluency, public-spiritedness and public service, which extended from New Deal Washington to India, where he served as U.S. ambassador. Like two Harvard colleagues — historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Sen. Pat Moynihan, another ambassador to India — Galbraith was among liberalism’s leading public intellectuals, yet he was a friend and skiing partner of William F. Buckley. After one slalom down a Swiss mountain, inelegantly executed by the 6-foot-8-inch Galbraith, Buckley asked … Seguir leyendo
By Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a writer and historian (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/05/06):
Edmund Burke once made a famous prediction. “The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.” Some years later Thomas Carlyle disdained economists as professors “of the dismal science.” The profession has indeed done little since to disprove Carlyle and to refute Burke. But neither Burke nor Carlyle foresaw John Kenneth Galbraith.
In the first place, Galbraith was the tallest economist in the world. That reinforced the boldness with which he confronted the establishment … Seguir leyendo
Por Carlos Rodríguez Braun, catedrático de la Universidad Complutense (ABC, 02/05/06):
Lejos de ser un valiente que nadó contra corriente, estuvo siempre al amparo del poder. Lejos de ser un modesto amigo de los pobres fue un exquisito amigo de los ricos y potentados…
EL célebre economista estadounidense, aunque nacido en Canadá, John Kenneth Galbraith, acaba de morir a los 97 años. Muchos de los méritos que se le atribuyen son infundados.
La corrección política lo ha aplaudido en tanto que «progresista» y «partidario de la justicia y la libertad»; subrayó incluso su «compromiso civilizatorio». Lo que Galbraith hizo … Seguir leyendo