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HUGE FLIP: Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue—defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city’s first Black mayor in history.
Thank you Professor Richardson.
In the Powell Memorandum of August, 1971, Powell said that public colleges and universities were largely funded by taxpayers, and articulated that high-income business executives and corporations were were among the most significant taxpayers and therefore, funders of higher education (at least pre-Reagan, when the wealthy actually paid taxes -except for Trump). Powell argued that oddly, highly-educated professors were liberal or leaned liberal -thus he called for…
Thank you for mentioning John Kenneth Galbraith and the preference for him over Milton Friedman. I attended a Galbraith speech at Iowa State as a student in 1975. What a fantastic speaker and such a great mind.
This is from his Wikipedia page-
Galbraith's main ideas focused around the influence of the market power of large corporations. He believed that this market power weakened the widely accepted principle of consumer sovereignty, allowing corporations to be price makers, rather than price tak…
Gary -what a gift to have been able to see him -thank you for sharing.
Many years ago I was attending an emerging technology conference at MIT and made arrangements to visit Noam Chomsky on my trip from the San Francisco. I had also contacted John's office at Harvard -my understanding of Economics was largely developed through Professor Galbraith's writing and journals. Unfortunately, at the time, his health was in rapid decline and I did not get the opportunity to thank him for his work and wri…
Right back atcha George. Seeing Noam Chomsky speak would have been amazing I'm sure.
I've only read a couple of Galbraith's books but I will look for 'The Economics of Fraud" as well as the others you mention.
I agree that college curriculums should include mandatory readings and even AP high school classes.
One of the weed out classes (whether intentional or not) for Engineering students was English I and II. Some of the best engineering students I knew took those classes multiple times before th…
Thanks Gary. And no question that Professor Galbraith’s powerful eloquence would fit in an English curriculum. Interestingly, the best database and application performance people I recruited during my career at Oracle were degreed in Electrical Engineering as opposed to Computer Science or Information Systems. Most couldn’t write a report or spell their way out of a paper bag (and still can’t) however they had supernatural analytical skills when it came to 0’s and 1’s.
I can certainly relate to the writing skills of engineers. One of my college room mates was a EE. He led the team that created the pacemaker for Medtronics to be implanted with someone in need of an MRI. He finally passed English II the quarter he graduated. He too couldn't write a report or spell worth a lick, but he was brilliant. He has multiple patents from his time at other companies as well.