John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith was a prominent 20th-century Canadian-American economist, public intellectual, and author known for his influential critiques of capitalism and corporate power.


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instanceOf academic
author
diplomat
economist
human
public intellectual
academicDegree PhD in agricultural economics
appointedBy John F. Kennedy
awardReceived Lomonosov Gold Medal
Order of Canada
Presidential Medal of Freedom
causeOfDeath natural causes
countryOfCitizenship Canada
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1908-10-15
dateOfDeath 2006-04-29
educatedAt University of California, Berkeley
University of Toronto
employer Harvard University
familyName Galbraith
fieldOfWork economics
political economy
public policy
fullName John Kenneth Galbraith
genre economic literature
non-fiction
givenName John
Kenneth
ideology Keynesian economics
liberalism
influenced Joseph Stiglitz
Paul Krugman
influencedBy John Maynard Keynes
knownFor analysis of corporate power
concept of countervailing power
critique of unfettered capitalism
theory of the affluent society
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Democratic Party
surface form: "Democratic Party (United States)"
notableWork American Capitalism
Economics and the Public Purpose
The Affluent Society
Wall Street Crash of 1929
surface form: "The Great Crash, 1929"

The New Industrial State
numberOfChildren 4
placeOfBirth Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
placeOfDeath Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: "Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States"
positionHeld United States Ambassador
surface form: "United States Ambassador to India"
residence Cambridge, Massachusetts
surface form: "Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States"
spouse Catherine Merriam Atwater NERFINISHED

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Wall Street Crash of 1929 describedBy John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith fullName John Kenneth Galbraith

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