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John Kenneth Galbraith [a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual.
Apr 29, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist and public servant known for his support of public spending and for the literary quality of his writing on public affairs. Learn more about Galbraith’s life and work, including his various books.
May 1, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment he often needled in prolific writings ...
John Kenneth Galbraith. 1908-2006. F rom the 1950s through the 1970s, John Kenneth Galbraith was one of the most widely read economists in the United States. One reason is that he wrote so well, with the ability to turn a clever phrase that made those he argued against look foolish. Galbraith’s first major book, published in 1952, is American ...
The life and times of the world's most famous economist. 3/28/2005 As the rip-roaring 1990s were coming to a close, America's best-known economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, was out of favor. He didn't even receive an invitation to a 2001 conference on the New Economy at Harvard University, blocks from where he lived and where he had taught for decades. Galbraith's...
May 29, 2018 · John Kenneth Galbraith was an institutional economist, Harvard professor, advisor to presidents, bureaucrat, ambassador to India, raconteur, caustic wit, and man of letters. His concepts of countervailing power, the affluent society, conventional wisdom, want creation, and the technostructure of the industrial state have become part of the modern vernacular and the battle for the controlling ...
Apr 30, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-born Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society, died Saturday night at ...
Nov 21, 2005 · If one individual could be singled out as the "economist of the American Century," John Kenneth Galbraith would certainly be a prime candidate. During the course of his long life, which spans most ...
Apr 30, 2006 · Asked to name an economist, many Americans over the age of 30 would think of John Kenneth Galbraith, who has died at the age of 97. But he was both somewhat less and much more than a professional ...
Apr 30, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard ...
