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...Galbraith was a resident tutor in Winthrop House from 1935 to 1937. In 1939, he left the University when his contract was not renewed, instead teaching at Princeton University and the University of California and working with the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Galbraith he returned to Harvard in 1948. He was offered tenure just one year later...
...Galbraith was a devoted Democrat and advised Presidents Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton. He was a socially aware thinker who lamented the proliferation of economists who were “good at the blackboard” but did not apply their theories to real situations, a class of thinker that he called “esoteric,” according to his biographer, Kennedy School of Government lecturer Richard Parker...
...Galbraith opposed this category to “exoteric” economists, “men like himself who worked outside the University and used it mainly as a place to refuel,” said Parker...
Friedman agreed that Galbraith had always focused on the practical and aimed to interest a wide audience...
...Canadian-born Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario in 1908 and educated as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto...