John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006

The Associated Press reports the death of America's most prominent liberal economist.

John Nichols provides an appreciation in The Nation.

In Foreign Affairs, J. Bradford DeLong argues in a review of a biography by Richard Baker that Galbraith has little contemporary influence.

But in The Nation, Eric Alterman links Galbraith with Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and the Rev. William Sloane Coffin.

And John F. Harris in The Washington Post explores the friendship of Harvard faculty and Kennedy administration members Galbraith and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.