John Kenneth Galbraith

Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, OC , Ph.D , LL.D (born October 15, 1908) is the most widely read economist of the twentieth century. The Canadian-born author of four dozen books and over one thousand articles was on the faculty of Harvard University from 1934 to 1975 (where he remains a professor emeritus). He served in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1961, Kennedy appointed him ambassador to India, where he served until 1963. Although he is a former president of the American Economic Association, Galbraith is considered something of an iconoclast by many mainstream economists because he eschews mathematical modeling in favor of non-technical political economics. He is also an "old-fashioned" Keynesian with progressive values and a gift for writing. His work includes scores of popular books on economic topics in which he describes ways in which economic theory does not always mesh with real life. Publication in 2004 of a highly praised biography, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics has renewed widespread interest in his career and his ideas.

Partial bibliography

• Modern Competition and Business Policy, 1938.
• A Theory of Price Control, 1952.
• American Capitalism: The concept of countervailing power, 1952.
• The Great Crash, 1929, 1954.
• The Affluent Society, 1958.
• The Liberal Hour, 1960
• The New Industrial State, 1967.
• The Triumph (a novel), 1968.
• Ambassador's Journal, 1969.
• Economics, Peace and Laughter, 1972.
• Power and the Useful Economist, 1973, AER
• Economics and the Public Purpose, 1973
• Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, 1975.
• The Age of Uncertainty (also a BBC 13 part television series), 1977.
• Annals of an Abiding Liberal, 1979.
• A Life in Our Times, 1981.
• A Tenured Professor, 1990.
• A Journey Through Economic Time, 1994.
• The Good Society: the humane agenda, 1996.
• The Essential Galbraith, 2001.
• The Economics of Innocent Fraud, 2004.