John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (properly /ɡælˈbreɪθ/ gal-BRAYTH, but commonly /ˈɡælbreɪθ/ GAL-brayth; 15 October 1908 – 29 April 2006), was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian, an institutionalist, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s and he filled the role of public intellectual from the 1950s to the 1970s on matters of economics.
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... John Kenneth Galbraith (Canadian-born economist who worked in the United States, 1908–2006) Some literature The Affluent Society, 1958 The Liberal Hour, 1960 ...
... John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) worked in the New Deal administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... more developed than the earlier institutional economists, Galbraith was critical of orthodox economics throughout the late twentieth century ... In The Affluent Society (1958), Galbraith argues voters reaching a certain material wealth begin to vote against the common good ...
... John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) worked in the New Deal administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... In The Affluent Society (1958), Galbraith argues voters reaching a certain material wealth begin to vote against the common good ... In The New Industrial State Galbraith argues that economic decisions are planned by a private bureaucracy, a technostructure of experts who manipulate is marketing and ...
... John King (Edward Elgar, forthcoming) ... "John Kenneth Galbraith and the Post Keynesian Tradition in Economics", Review of Political Economy, Vol. 475-490, Reprinted in The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith, ed ...
... John Kenneth Galbraith introduces India, 1974 ... The Galbraith Reader, 1977 ... Wisdom Essays on Economics in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1989 ...
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