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...yesterday that a vote on his censure be taken tomorrow has forced a group of University faculty members, who were planning a national censure movement, to drop the idea for lack of time. This group was reportedly headed by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, and Mark DeWolf Howe '28, professor...
...Galbraith Predicts Squeeze...
While sharing Harris' general optimism on the state of the economy, John K. Galbraith, professor of Economics, pointed to the continuous two-year decline in farm prices as a dangerous soft spot. "For some time to come, there is a reasonably strong prospect of a squeeze in the agricultural sector of the economy." he said...
...Dunlop's rise to prominence has been its speed. He is not yet forty years old. Born in the Philippine Islands, the son of a missionary, he whipped through a couple of California colleges and went on to study economics in England. A friendship with Professor John K. Galbraith influenced him to come to the University. He gained a firm foothold in his academic world with a permanent appointment at the age of thirty--the youngest man in the field of the Social Sciences to get one. Six years before he had obtained his first government...
Schumpeter's thesis was elaborated at last week's meeting by Harvard's Economics Professor John Kenneth Galbraith. "Anciently," said Galbraith, "two solutions have been recognized to the problem of [concentrated] economic power. One is competition. The other ... is regulation by the state." But a third result of such concentration, often overlooked by economists, may be of even greater importance: the rise of large "countervailing powers," such as the labor federations and farm bureaus, or the organization of large chain and department stores to offset the market power of great manufacturers. "Those who are subject...