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John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith , OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liber...
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The Canadian-born, Berkeley-trained John Kenneth Galbraith has been considered by many as the "Last American Institutionalist". ... His New Industrial State (1967) expanded on Galbraith's theory of the firm, arguing that the orthodox theories of the perfectly competitive firm fell far short in analytical power.
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The Affluent Society (1958), John Kenneth Galbraith’s most broadly influential book, stands out among works of economic analysis for its accessible writing style, which makes complex economic concepts and arguments understandable to the popular reader. ... The Affluent Society: John Kenneth Galbraith Biography...
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Apr 30, 2006 ... John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, ..... a 13-part television series surveying 200 years of economic theory and practice. ...
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Indeed, if being tall and having silver hair is what is required for being "distinguished," then the late John Kenneth Galbraith certainly fit that description. ... Although Galbraith proclaimed that he disdained what one might call "mainstream" economic theory, he was not averse to coming up with theories on his own,
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Technical development has long since become the preserve of the scientist and the engineer." (Galbraith.) A British economic authority of long standing, Professor John Jewkes, ... John Kenneth Galbraith was a pop star, "fundamentally a one man crusade";11 his "theories have never found any acceptance in the academic world --"
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Richard Parker's John Kenneth Galbraith is an exceedingly well written and assiduously researched biography. Perhaps most impressive it the ease with which Parker weaves JKB's life, economic theories and beliefs, the development of Keynesian economics and virtually all post-WWI US history.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, an economist, author, professor, presidential counselor and U.S. ambassador to India, who used caustic wit and an iconoclastic temperament to help set the foundation of modern economic thinking, died April 29 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
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Known as a follower of Keynesian economic theories, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1934. Three years later, he became a U ... John Kenneth Galbraith, the author, scholar, diplomat and presidential adviser, who was a preeminent symbol and source of liberal political thought, died last night in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97.
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Foreign Affairs - Sisyphus as Social Democrat - J. Bradford DeLong: From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2005. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Richard Parker. : Farrar, ... Parker also has an explanation -- also a relatively convincing one -- for the eclipse of Galbraith's economic thought.
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