JK Galbraith RIP

[bobhope]

What?

People are taking stock broking tips from the shoeshine boy & borrowing thousands to invest on that basis?

If so, we're doomed...

not exactly - but every postman, hairdresser, taxi driver, etc. knows that you can make a killing buying and selling property :-)

[Antman]

I remember reading and enjoying "Age of Uncertainty" but have never heard of the 1929 book, I'll have to check it out sometime.

[bobhope]

I would have thought

most here would remember him for his book "The Great Crash: 1929" - well at least that's what I remember him for.

Cracking read btw, the situation then seems oddly familiar today.

[TheMonkey]

There goes all hope of clueful staff to outsource to.

[threaded]

John Kenneth Galbraith died on the 29th April, he would be rembered by most here as setting up the first Computer Science Department at a university in India.

Favourite quote: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."