John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith[lower-alpha 1] 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.[1][2]
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) | Catherine Merriam Atwater (m. 1937) |
| Children | 4 including Peter & James |
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| 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.png.webp){kind=small} Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) |
Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member.[3]
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.[4][5]
Galbraith died of natural causes at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 29, 2006 at the age of 97.[5]
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.
- "John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97". Harvard Crimson. April 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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