John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith | |
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| 7th United States Ambassador to India | |
| In office April 18, 1961 – July 12, 1963 | |
| President | John F. Kennedy |
| Preceded by | Ellsworth Bunker |
| Succeeded by | Chester Bowles |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 15, 1908 Iona Station, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | April 29, 2006 (aged 97) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Children | 4 including Peter & James |
| Academic career | |
| Institution | |
| Alma mater | |
| Influences | Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Gardiner Means, Adolf A. Berle |
| Contributions | Countervailing power, Technostructure, Conventional wisdom |
| Awards | Lomonosov Gold Medal (1993) Officer of the Order of Canada (1997) .svg){kind=small} Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) |
John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual. He supported liberalism and post-Keynesian economics.
Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member.
A Democrat, he worked under the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration.
Galbraith died of natural causes at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 29, 2006 at the age of 97.
Notes
- ↑ Pronounced /ɡælˈbreɪθ/ gal-BRAYTH.
References
- ↑ Keller, Robert R. (1983). "Keynesian and Institutional Economics: Compatibility and Complementarity?". Journal of Economic Issues. 17 (4): 1087–95. doi:10.1080/00213624.1983.11504189. JSTOR 4225383.
- ↑ Davidson, Paul (2005). "Galbraith and the Post Keynesians". Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. 28 (1): 103–13. JSTOR 4225383.
- ↑ Marglin, Stephen A.; Parker, Richard; Sen, Amartya; Friedman, Benjamin M. (February 7, 2008). "John Kenneth Galbraith". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
- ↑ "John Kenneth Galbraith". The Economist. May 4, 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- 1 2 "John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97". Harvard Crimson. April 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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