If you're a neo-Galbraithian, that is a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
In addition to Galbraith and Abramovitz, other "Galbraithian" papers in the CED Symposium are those of Professor David Riesman and especially Sir Roy Harrod, who is angry at "touts," the British brand of advertiser. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
Marxian and Galbraithian objections and re-evaluations are shot down left and right. From Wordnik.com. [Macroeconomics and Confirmatory Bias, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Those in the Liberal north-eastern Galbraithian states were therefore paying about twelve cents in the dollar more than the southerners. From Wordnik.com. [Too Few Producers: In Britain and North America] Reference
Instead of what Alvin Toffler in 1980 called the "third wave," a Galbraithian economy would still be dominated by automobile and steel manufacturing. From Wordnik.com. [From Galbraith to Spitzer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Those who would defend what I might call this Galbraithian commitment to the public purpose will of course point out advantages in our Canadian system. From Wordnik.com. [Private Giving in Canada] Reference
Great Neck, N.Y. But Leasco's "planning" took the distinctly un - Galbraithian turn of an unsolicited bid for control of the blue-blooded Chemical Bank of New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Non-Economist's Economist] Reference
The bright colors and pulsing animation of the signs defied the formal geometry of aristocratic modernism and the tidied-up corporatism of the Galbraithian “New Industrial State.”. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of Our Times] Reference
Arnold: I'd anticipate that within your book you'll explain how marketing is an act of dispersing information, rather than the Galbraithian pessimistic view that it's merely an attempt to convince people to buy something they don't need. From Wordnik.com. [My Book is Available, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Perhaps because of his successes with a best-selling biography of the business guru Warren Buffett and an account of the spectacular failure of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, When Genius Failed, Lowenstein has adopted a didactic, Galbraithian tone that may work for the sage of Cambridge but doesn't for the sage of Westfield, New Jersey. From Wordnik.com. [Books About Schnooks] Reference
In short, the Galbraithian view of the business and marketing system makes little or no sense. From Wordnik.com. [LewRockwell.com] Reference
The truth is that we have entered into a frenzied neo-Keynesian, neo-Galbraithian revival in government policy. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Sanity] Reference
Tyson is actually on the short list, and she seems to be a much more liberal - in the sense of Galbraithian liberal - economist than such as Summers. From Wordnik.com. [Limited, Inc.] Reference
As Tyler Cowen keeps pointing out (and he is not the only one), there is precious little theory or empirical evidence that the neo-Galbraithian policy will do much to alleviate the recession. From Wordnik.com. [Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
For years, many good economists of the Keynesian and Galbraithian school have warned that the path chosen by the financial and policy establishment was unsustainable and would cause massive damage to society and the public good. From Wordnik.com. [Liblogs.ca latest blog entries] Reference
Twentieth-century world's fairs had encouraged visitors to equate progress and technological optimism with the Galbraithian vision of stable, heavily bureaucratic, industrial quasi-monopolies -- the corporate version of nation states -- working with government to determine the future. From Wordnik.com. [Hit & Run] Reference
There’s a reason for all this, and you can find it in Bill Moyer’s PBS interview with Benjamin Barber via MeFi, a Galbraithian analysis of capitalism’s production not of products but of needs themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Sermon for Capitalmas Eve « Gerry Canavan] Reference
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