I noticed this too but I don't think it made it as a news item. Talk about acheiving a lot at a young age and then having roughly 60 more years to make an impact on society. This guy gave a new meaning to the word "prolific". And he was 6'-8"!

Here is the NY Times' take on Galbraith.

amen. indeed, some of the urban neighborhoods that jacobs championed became the urban playgrounds for the rich and liberal that are, socioeconomically, indistinguishable from the contended affluent suburbanites galbraith derided in "the affluent society" despite her desires to see them remain ethnically and economically diverse.

and all the way back from tail fins to the crack epidemic to the iPod -- the cart has been going before the horse economically-speaking, where supply has preceded demand and, as galbraith showed, no increase in well-being or welfare has resulted

listen to the man himself in a 2003 interview speaking on the most important issues of today:
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/05/20060502_b_main.asp

We lost two titans, what do these deaths mean? are they closing a chapter?

he's not a titan, but what will happen when Jim Lehrer goes? anybody care?

could you even go through college today without having to read galbraith at SOME point? (excluding those that majored in dead languages or the like)

scammed! posted first in discussions, then farmered into the news section without so much as a by-your-leave (or even a link as a good will gesture).
oh those crazy agriculture-types. most likely corn-fed, certainly suspect.

wow! now it's gone... don't mess with me, I'm magic

astrological advice given for £1.50

Louis Rukeyser died too....
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5379483

I liked watching his show on PBS

I though architecture was a dead language.

Don’t for get Jacobs either but yeah, Galbaith. Huge