Topic: Ken Galbraith

Good old days

Spectator, The London - 1198 days ago
GstaadThis place made its reputation during the Fifties. We had Bill Buckley, Ken Galbraith, David Niven, Sir Roger Moore, Lord Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Balthus, even Vladimir Nabokov at times. Last week Paris Hilton hit town, and I can't think of a ...

Galbraith versus Friedman: the great debate is not over yet

Spectator, The London - 1198 days ago
I would love to have been a fly on the wall -- or a butler -- at the US embassy in New Delhi in March 1963 when Milton Friedman, champion of laissez-faire, came to lunch with J.K. Galbraith, high priest of higher welfare ...