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John Kenneth Galbraith 1908 - Canada, US

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John Kenneth Galbraith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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challenged the myth of the U.S. economy's reliance on the gross national product for its social stability, positing instead that consumers' taste for luxury goods dictated the economy's focus at the expense of the common welfare.

Reading

• 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, 1968.
• Ambassador's Journal, 1969.
• Economics, Peace and Laughter, 1972.
• "Power and the Useful Economist", 1973, AER
• Economics and the Public Purpose, 1973
• Money, 1975.
• The Age of Uncertainty, 1977.
• Annals of an Abiding LIberal, 1979.
• A Life in Our Times, 1981.
• The Tenured Professor, 1990.
• A Journey Through Economic Time, 1994.
• The Good Society: the humane agenda, 1996.

Writing available on the net

• Interview with Galbraith at Berkeley.
• Speech at Helsinki by Galbraith.
• Galbraith Page in Canada.
• Creative Quotations of JKG
• Review of Good Society
• The Legacy Continues - James K. Galbrait

Commentaries

John Kenneth Galbraith Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

New School Net Profile

Emeritus Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's Biography

Commanding Heights : John Kenneth Galbraith | on PBS

A look at John Kenneth Galbraith, a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2003.

Quotations

• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
  Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went.
  
• Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed.
  The Affluent Society, 1958.
  
• It is almost as important to know what is not serious as to know what is.
  In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
  
• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
  In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
  
• Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.
  In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.