The subject of this week's ABC's Background Briefing is JK Galbraith. It is an edited talk by Galbraith's official biographer, Richard Parker. If you can't listen to-day, don't miss it on Tuesday 2 August at 7pm. Galbraith is a hero of mine - one of the few economists who makes sense. Adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He has not been fashionable for three decades: his name can generate sniggers among the economic rational (irrational?) neo-classicists. But he makes sense. I will discuss my view of his contribution later in the week.
