John Kenneth Galbraith, who died on April 29 at the age of 97, was one of the most prominent American economists of the 20th century. He advised three generations of Democratic Party leaders, most ...

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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 ...

Perhaps only an elephant of a book could cover the life and thinking of so influential a figure as John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908). But this one goes too far. While Parker, an economist, writes with ...

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 ...

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Harvard’s John Kenneth Galbraith, 49. is an economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a ...

In this thin volume, Galbraith, the noted economist and presidential adviser, serves up a pessimistic view of today's U.S. economy. Drawing on the omnipresent headlines of corporate scandal and greed, ...

In one way, this hook represents John Kenneth Galbraith’s finest hour. The economist has long been an entertainer manque. Here his talent for show business is at last allowed to bloom. The Age of ...

John Kenneth Galbraith was a presence in the town of Newfane for almost 60 years, a tall and genial figure whose wit is still remembered at the local store. For longer than that, he was a presence in ...

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 ...