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Article: Blending economic ideas with the persuasive power of journalism: Galbraith 'performed that balancing trick as well as it has been done.'.(John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics)(Book Review)
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- Nieman Reports
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- September 22, 2005
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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics Richard Parker Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 787 Pages. $35.
It is a well known bit of John Kenneth Galbraith lore that his path to becoming a towering public intellectual began at Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), which he once described as "not only the cheapest but probably the worst college in the English-speaking world."
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