Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with author Richard Parker about his new biography of America’s best-known and most widely published economist John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Kenneth Galbraith was an Economist for the American Enterprise Institute with 30 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1964 Compiled Program as a ...

Many years ago, when I was a college student, I took a course from John Kenneth Galbraith. On the first day of class, Professor Galbraith gave a brilliant opening lecture, after which the students ...

BOSTON In the 1950s, John Kenneth Galbraith warned that corporations were becoming too powerful. In the 1960s he warned President Kennedy about the dangers of unilateral military action abroad. He ...

WASHINGTON — I am rereading “The Affluent Society” with pleasure and profit. Written by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1958, “The Affluent Society” survives as one of the ...

They call it the dismal science, but in the hands of John Kenneth Galbraith, economics was neither dismal nor much of a science. He turned his knowledge of economic basics into social criticism for a ...

THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE by John Kenneth Galbraith. 427 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. Who really runs the U.S. economy? Not the same kind of people who did a few years ago, says that fashionably ...

Notables filled the Memorial Church at Harvard University yesterday for a memorial for author, economist, and public intellectual John Kenneth Galbraith, who died in April at 97. “He was a diplomat, ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society, died Saturday night, ...

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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 modern economists ...