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    John Kenneth Galbraith

    Canadian-American economist and diplomat

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  1. v. t. e. 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. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an ...

  2. Jun 18, 2019 · But John Galbraith sounds like an idea whose time has come. Mr. Cooper’s 1973 hope that the time had come for socialism proved a decidedly premature forecast, thanks in part to (1) George ...

  3. May 15, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, who died at the age of 97 on April 29, ... Galbraith had a lot of time for socialism—in practice, not just in principle. In the early 1970s, he called for America's ...

  4. Apr 29, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith, 1968. John Kenneth Galbraith (born October 15, 1908, Iona Station, Ontario, Canada—died April 29, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.) was a 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.

  5. 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...

  6. Apr 30, 2006 · John Kenneth Galbraith was born Oct. 15, 1908, on a 150-acre farm in Dunwich Township in southern Ontario, Canada, the only son of William Archibald and Catherine Kendall Galbraith. His forebears ...

  7. May 29, 2018 · John Kenneth Galbraith was born in southern Ontario, Canada, on October 15, 1908 to a Scottish farming family. He attended the Ontario Agricultural College, which at the time was part of the University of Toronto but is now the University of Guelph. He graduated with distinction in 1931, having studied agricultural economics.

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