John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith[a] (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.[2][3]
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 |
| 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) |
Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member.[4]
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.[5][6]
Galbraith died of natural causes at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 29, 2006 at the age of 97.[6]
John Kenneth Galbraith Media
Photograph was taken between 1940 and 1946 "I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case." — C-SPAN, November 13, 1994
Galbraith, first at left, as US ambassador to India, with President John F. Kennedy, Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, 1961
Galbraith and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the US Chancery, New Delhi
Notes
- ↑ Pronounced /ɡælˈbreɪθ/ gal-BRAYTH.
References
- ↑ Stiglitz, Joseph E. (December 28, 2006) "John Kenneth Galbraith understood capitalism as lived – not as theorized". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ↑ 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. May 4, 2006. http://www.economist.com/node/6877092. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "John Kenneth Galbraith, Longtime Economics Professor, Dies at 97". Harvard Crimson. April 2006. Retrieved July 3, 2013.
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