John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official...
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Association, created in 2011. Galbraith is a son of the renowned Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith and Catherine Galbraith (née Catherine Merriam...
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J. K. Galbraith is the name of: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian economist and public official James K. Galbraith (born 1952), American economist...
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Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler, Elinor Ostrom, Anne Mayhew, John Kenneth Galbraith and Gunnar Myrdal, but even the sociologist C. Wright Mills was...
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A Tenured Professor (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
novel by Canadian-American economist and Harvard professor emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith about a liberal university teacher who sets out to change American...
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fierce opposition to the segregationalist policies of Apartheid. John Kenneth Galbraith (Canadian-born economist who worked in the United States, 1908–2006)...
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The Age of Uncertainty (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
and OECA, and written and presented by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith fully acknowledged the successes of the market system in economics...
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author John Kenneth Galbraith, and the mother of four sons: diplomat and political analyst, Peter W. Galbraith, economist James K. Galbraith, attorney J...
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The Affluent Society (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
is a 1958 (4th edition revised 1984) book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post–World...
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Western political order along such lines. Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith also wrote about a similar phenomenon under capitalism, the emergence...
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John Galbraith may refer to: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian-American economist John Galbraith (Pennsylvania politician) (1794–1860), Pennsylvania...
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Class, Mixed Signals: the Future of Global Television News, and John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. Parker has held Marshall...
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The New Industrial State (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
Industrial State is a 1967 book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Three revised editions appeared in 1972, 1978 and 1985. In it, Galbraith asserts that within the industrial...
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America, in John Kenneth Galbraith and Michael Keaney (2001). Economist with a Public Purpose: Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith. Routledge....
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nominated for a National Book Award, shortlisted for the 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. From 2011 to 2016, she created and ran the Transitions Forum at...
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society was borrowed from an economic work by the U.S. economist John Kenneth Galbraith called The Affluent Society and appears only sporadically in sociological...
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and control on its economy. The term was coined by the economist John Kenneth Galbraith in The New Industrial State (1967). It usually refers to managerial...
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architecture critic Kenneth Gainwell (b. 1999), American football player John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian-American economist Kenneth Gamble (b. 1943)...
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scare." Leonard Lewin wrote the book with the help of the economist John Kenneth Galbraith and three Monocle editors Marvin Kitman, Richard Lingeman, and Victor...
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The Great Crash, 1929 (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
The Great Crash, 1929 is a book written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1955. It is an economic history of the lead-up to the Wall Street Crash...
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The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction is awarded by PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) biennially "to a distinguished book of general...
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the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2021 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. Caste was longlisted for the 2020 National...
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Administration and then the Office of Strategic Services. He worked under John Kenneth Galbraith at the Strategic Bombing Survey traveling to post-war Germany and...
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businessmen. In his introduction to the 1973 edition, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith said that The Theory of the Leisure Class is Veblen's intellectual...
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country. Notable Massey lecturers have included Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Jean Vanier, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, George...
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Principles, 1962. Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Affluent Society, 1958. Mises, Ludwig von, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, 1949. Keynes, John Maynard, The...
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Beer 1961–1964: Paul Seabury 1962–1965: John P. Roche 1965–1967: Rep. Don Edwards 1967–1969: John Kenneth Galbraith 1970–1971: Joseph Duffey 1971–1973: Rep...
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American Capitalism (category Books by John Kenneth Galbraith)
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power is a book by John Kenneth Galbraith, written in 1952. It contains a critique of the view that markets...
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Book Award 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017...
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from 'prophetic rule, to autocracy, to tyranny'. In this context John Kenneth Galbraith regrets the "very slight" amount of research on the nature of political...
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