Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with author Richard Parker about his new biography of America’s best-known and most widely published economist John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, ...
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE by John Kenneth Galbraith. 427 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. Who really runs the U.S. economy? Not the same kind of people who did a few years ago, says that fashionably ...
John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure. As William Greider wrote ...
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 ...
Despite the reputation of some economists, it is still possible to learn things from them and not just about economics. A case in point is a recently published book of letters from legendary economist ...
John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment he often needled in prolific writings for ...
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 ...
John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics ...