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Richard Parker

Richard Parker, an Oxford-trained economist, teaches at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the biographer of John Kenneth Galbraith.

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  • Why the New Deal Matters

    March 20, 2008

    What was it about the New Deal and Roosevelt that make the man and the era relevant today?

2006

  • Galbraith Remembered

    June 1, 2006

    At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University's Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man.

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