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  1. 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...

  2. Jun 18, 2019 · When Americans today wonder what “socialism” means, they could do worse than recall how the quite mainstream commentator John Kenneth Galbraith defined it in 1973.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. May 15, 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...

  6. May 11, 2011 · John Kenneth Galbraiththe Harvard-based economist whose books shaped the public conversation on economic matters for a generation in mid-twentieth-century America—would have agreed.

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  8. Apr 17, 2005 · He is a frequent speaker at the Kennedy Library and in virtually all ways, except perhaps the minor feature of his physical stature, is a modern day Ken Galbraith. He is a public intellectual, a liberal economist, and a leader in progressive American politics.

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