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H. Gardner Ackley, an economics adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and a United States Ambassador to Italy, died in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Feb. 12. Professor Ackley, who retired in 1984 after 43 years as a member of the economics department at the University of Michigan, was 82. Appointed to the President's Council of Economic Advisers by President Kennedy in 1962, Professor Ackley was named chairman of the council in 1964 by President Johnson, serving four years. Although a believer in the Government's ability to manage the economy through fiscal and monetary fine-tuning -- a belief disputed by classical economic theorists -- Professor Ackley did not favor unlimited Government involvement. As chairman of the council, he did not shy away from publicly chastising business and labor for price increases and wage increases exceeding the Government's guidelines, but he said the damage that would be done by the imposition of direct wage and price controls would outweigh that of continued large wage and price increases.

H. Gardner Ackley, 82, one of the nation's foremost economists and a principal adviser on economic policy to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, died Feb. 12 in Ann Arbor, Mich. He had Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Ackley, who had a long career at the University of Michigan, where he was chairman of the economics department, was called frequently to Washington to provide economic advice. Early in 1969, during Johnson's last month in office, he named Dr. Ackley the U.S. ambassador to Italy, describing him during the announcement as one of his \"most trusted and closest friends.\" Several months after the Nixon administration took office, Dr. Ackley resigned to return to the University of Michigan, from which he retired in 1984.