Nov 21, 2005 · At the center of many of the major economic and political controversies of his day, the erudite and determined Galbraith was bound to make enemies — and did. Rival Camps in …

Apr 29, 2006 · A key adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith served as ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963, when he returned again to Harvard; he became professor emeritus in …

Jun 1, 2005 · In a stunning political stroke, which in many ways succeeded where Bryan’s 1896 Populist campaign in the United States had failed, it ushered in a new era in Canadian politics.

Jun 18, 2019 · John Kenneth Galbraith was the uncontested bandleader behind the deafening drumbeat for Nixon’s price controls, and he was greatly responsible for Socialism’s current …

Apr 17, 2005 · Ken Galbraith is a man of great wit and wisdom, deep principles, strong political views, all of which are on full display in his 42 books, countless other publications, and nearly …

Apr 29, 2006 · Galbraith was active in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson; and among other …

Mar 9, 2009 · After stints at Princeton, the Office of Price Administration during World War II, and Fortune magazine, Galbraith wrote the conclusions of the Strategic Bombing Survey that …

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. …

He was one of the chief price controllers during World War II as head of the Price Section of the U.S. government’s Office of Price Administration. Unlike almost all other economists, Galbraith …

Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith is a Harvard professor whose views on industrial societies and their lack of competitive markets have made him one of the world's most recognized …

He did so as a witty commentator on America’s political follies and as a versatile author of bestselling books—such as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State —that warn of …

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 …

Mar 19, 2024 · Firstly, his open support for the Democratic Party, as a founding member of Americans for Democratic Action, and appointment by President John F. Kennedy as U.S. …

This work examines the economist John Kenneth Galbraith through the unique lense of political theory. Waligorski illustrates the continuing link between politics and economics in American …

Mar 13, 2023 · It’s an audacious economic, political and social theory in the eclectic tradition of North American Institutionalism, which gives a new twist to the insights of Edward …

Galbraith discusses Kennedy’s emergence from the shadows of his father and three older brothers to become a “top-notch” Senator. He remembers fondly their talks on economics and …

The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955. It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street crash of 1929.The book argues that the …

Feb 6, 2025 · That’s the claim of noted economist James K. Galbraith, who argues this is a “calamity.” His big problem with mainstream economics is its obsession with a 19th-century …