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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. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.
Galbraith's theory of consumer demand has an important policy implication: there will be an underallocation of resources to public goods. Galbraith called this circumstance "social imbalance."
Jun 1, 2006 · CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 31 - Over decades the world came to know John Kenneth Galbraith as a maverick economist, author and diplomat, towering in intellect and stature, lacking in modesty and...
May 4, 2006 · 2001 – Publishes “The Essential Galbraith” 2004 – Publishes “The Economics of Innocent Fraud” 2005 – Richard Parker publishes biography, “John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics” 2006 – Dies in Cambridge, Mass., April 29, at age 97
Apr 30, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment that he needled in prolific...
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.
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Feb 7, 2008 · Galbraith was the most widely read economist of the twentieth century — 46 books that together sold more than 7 million copies despite none being a textbook — as well as one of America’s most engaged and celebrated public intellectuals.
