Kenneth Galbraith dies - advice ignored - tutored Adlai

Economist Kenneth Galbraith dies - AFP
April 30, 2006 - 5:27PM
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who focused on controversial issues such as distribution of wealth in society died on Saturday at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of 97, The New York Times reported.
Professor Galbraith was consulted frequently by national leaders, and he gave advice freely, though it might have been ignored as often as it was taken, the paper said. He tutored Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for president in 1952 and 1956, on Keynesian economics.