ABSTRACT
I am impressed most by John Kenneth Galbraith’s courage. During World War II, he successfully controlled prices despite the howls of businessmen and politicians until the howls finally forced him to resign. As the war came to an end, he led a team to assess the effects of fire-bombing German cities and concluded, over the strong objec tions of Army Air Force generals, that the mass murder of civilians did not shorten the war by a single day.
