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May 29, 2018 · John Kenneth Galbraith (born 1908) was a leading scholar of the American Institutionalist school and arguably the most famous economist in the post World War II world. His views were a stinging indictment of the modern materialistic society that championed personal achievement and material well-being over public interest and needs.
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.
Mar 28, 2005 · John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. The life and times of the world's most famous economist. As the rip-roaring 1990s were coming to a close, America's best-known economist, John Kenneth Galbraith, was out of favor.
Apr 30, 2006 · Facebook. Flipboard. Email. John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of...
May 1, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith â the Canadian-born Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society â died Saturday...
May 4, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University, noted economist and author, former ambassador to India, and former presidential adviser, died April 29, 2006, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97.
May 16, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, who died at the age of 97 on April 29, said that to Britain's Guardian newspaper in 1989. Was any American economist of comparable esteem so wrong—so comfortably and...
