The Canadian-born, Berkeley-trained John Kenneth Galbraith has been considered by many as the "Last American Institutionalist". As a result, Galbraith has remained something of a renegade in modern economics - and his work has been nothing if not provocative.

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908- The Canadian-born, Berkeley-trained John Kenneth Galbraith has been considered by many as the Last American Institutionalist . As a result, Galbraith has remained something of a renegade in modern economics - and his work has been nothing if not provocative. In the 1950s, he presented economics with two tracts that needled the mainstream: one developing a theory of ...

The Canadian-born, Berkeley-trained John Kenneth Galbraith has been considered by many as the "Last American Institutionalist". As a result, Galbraith has remained something of a renegade in modern economics - and his work has been nothing if not provocative.

Short note on the life and work of the economist, John Kenneth Galbraith.

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Interview | Profile | Print | PDF John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) 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. Interview conducted 09/28/00 Interview Contents Depression-Era Economics: Looking for a Remedy Keynes's Impact on America: FDR ...

Harry Kreisler interviews John Kenneth Galbraith on the art of writing and on American politics and economics.

J. K. Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith is perhaps Canada's most well-known intellectual export, known for both his regular puncturing of established orthodox economic wisdom and the wit with which his attacks are delivered. The publication of his books The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, and Economics and the Public Purpose virtually established a Galbraithian school of thought in ...

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Free Market Fraud by John Kenneth Galbraith The Progressive magazine, January 1999 The excellent month I'm called upon for two celebrations-one for the distinguished career of Robert Heilbroner, the most interesting, innovative, and influential of liberal economists, and the other for The Progressive magazine, now ninety years young. I here venture the same theme for both. It is this: Most ...