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John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.
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Catherine Galbraith (née Catherine Merriam Atwater; January...
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American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power is...
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Mar 5, 2024 · John Kenneth Galbraith. See all media. Category: History & Society. Born: October 15, 1908, Iona Station, Ontario, Canada. Died: April 29, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. (aged 97) Notable Works: “American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power”.
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The Affluent Society is a 1958 (4th edition revised 1984) book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post– World War II United States was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and physical infrastructure, and perpetuating ...
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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...
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. He supported liberalism and post-Keynesian economics. [2] [3] Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member. [4]
- October 15, 1908, Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
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John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
John Kenneth Galbraith was an influential Canadian-American economist of the 20th century. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of U.S.-style, 20th-century political liberalism and progressive politics. Galbraith was a prolific author, producing four dozen books.