Ken.(John Kenneth Galbraith, American economists)(Obituary)

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH. 1908-2006 "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking." --JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH LOVED words. Above all, he loved words he and others wrote about him. On this, "Galbraith's First Law" left no confusion: "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." So it's probably best that Ken Galbraith, who died April 29 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 97, missed his obituaries. Far too many got him wrong. The facts of his life were there, but on what ...