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	Harvard University Gazette: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, professor, and author dies at 97
		John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University, noted economist and author, former ambassador to India, and former presidential adviser, died April 29, 2006, at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
		Galbraith campaigned for Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s and was an economic adviser to John F. Kennedy during his 1960 presidential race.
		Galbraith was born Oct. 15, 1908, in Iona Station, Ontario.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/daily/2006/04/30-galbraith.html (717 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Galbraith served in the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson.
		Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario and was raised in Dutton.
		Galbraith's son James K. Galbraith is a prominent progressive economist; his son Peter W. Galbraith has been a U.S. diplomat and is a widely published commentator on American foreign policy particularly in the Balkans and the Middle East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith (1283 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith
		Although Galbraith is outside the mainstream, that did not prevent them from electing him president of the American Economic Association in 1972.
		Galbraith certainly remains one of the better-known economists in post-war America and has worked in a variety of capacities.
		Besides his tenure at Harvard and the Office of Price Administration, Galbraith was editor of Fortune magazine for several years, director of the US Strategic Bombing Survey, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action in the late 1960s, television and newspaper commentator, advisor and speechwriter for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/galbraith.htm (498 words)

	Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Kenneth Galbraith is perhaps Canada's most well-known intellectual export, known for both his regular puncturing of established orthodox economic wisdom and the wit with which his attacks are delivered.
		John Newark, Assistant Professor of Economics and Chair of the Centre for Economics, Industrial Relations, and Organizational Studies at Athabasca University spoke with John Kenneth Galbraith in late 1990.
		Galbraith: I quite agree that in the last century or the early part of this century, the individual solution for poverty was to move from the poor countries to the rich countries, and I don't think that process is coming completely to an end.
	aurora.icaap.org /talks/galbraith.htm (2364 words)

	Book Excerpt: John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		IN APRIL 1962, Jacqueline Kennedy invited GALBRAITH, who was returning to Washington on official business as U.S. ambassador to India, to join the Kennedy family for a weekend at Glen Ora, the family's rented estate in the Virginia countryside.
		In the memo, Galbraith recapped point by point his opinion of the risks and faulty assumptions behind the policies Kennedy's advisers were advocating.
		Harriman was also told to instruct Galbraith to ask the Indian government to open simultaneous conversations with the North Vietnamese on the same terms.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0012718 (391 words)

	Booknotes
		GALBRAITH: Well, this is something of an anniversary for me. I began teaching at Harvard 60 years ago last week, but I was away for several years during the war, first in the war matters and then as an editor of Fortune.
		GALBRAITH: Broadly speaking, that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force.
		GALBRAITH: In 1935, I became a tutor in Winthrop House, one of the Harvard houses.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/?ProgramID=1225 (6032 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Kenneth Galbraith (Economics, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Kenneth Galbraith[gal´brAth] Pronunciation Key, 1908–;, American economist and public official, b.
		An adviser to President John F. Kennedy, he served (1961–63) as U.S. ambassador to India.
		A Keynesian economist, Galbraith has advocated government spending to fight unemployment and using more of the nation's wealth for public services, less for private consumption.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Galbrait.html (336 words)

	President's Report \| Honour Roll \| John Kenneth Galbraith
		John Kenneth Galbraith is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University.
		Because John Kenneth Galbraith is one who has relentlessly, inexorably attacked the mythology of monetarism, the deep beliefs of the contented: that the economy grows on tax reductions, on interest rate decrease and on low levels of inflation.
		Galbraith is one who has proposed that we look at the long-term effect of our policies, at durable strategies for development, and has always been a proponent of a progressive income tax which allows for an equitable redistribution of income.
	www.mun.ca /president/99-00report/honor/honorary_galbraith.html (2520 words)

	Interview: John Kenneth Galbraith
		Galbraith is 93 now, close to the end of one of the more remarkable American lives of the 20th century, in which he has been professor, author, ambassador, adviser of Democratic presidents from Roosevelt to Johnson and perhaps the most famous left-wing economist of his age.
		Galbraith once criticised the "unique unreadability" of the General Theory, noting acidly that "as Messiahs go, Keynes was deeply dependent on his prophets".
		Galbraith detects something of the conspiracy of silence he recounted so memorably in his book The Great Crash: 1929, first published in 1955 but as readable today as it was then.
	www.btinternet.com /~pae_news/GalbraithInterview.htm (1372 words)

	Commanding Heights : John Kenneth Galbraith \| on PBS
		Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith is a Harvard professor whose views on industrial societies and their lack of competitive markets have made him one of the world's most recognized modern economists.
		JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: Oh, we all knew each other and were all in touch with each other, all making the case for the basic Keynesian idea, which I must emphasize to you resisted conservative finance, borrowed money, and hired people across the country, rescuing them from unemployment.
		JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: Oh, there's no doubt about it, they were ideas related to the dominant business community and gave substant thought to ignoring the poor, ignoring the unemployed, ignoring the Depression.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_johnkennethgalbraith.html (3658 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Democracy's keeper
		Galbraith was John Kennedy's ambassador to India, and at a crucial point in 1962, to take another example, he drafted a blistering memo about incipient American involvement in Vietnam.
		Galbraith's 1962 memo, in particular, remains a prophetic affirmation of the primacy of war prevention (aka diplomacy) over unfettered war preparation.
		Galbraith, beginning with his service in the New Deal and continuing through his public, academic, literary, and political life's work, is a creator of that legacy and remains even now its staunchest defender.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/18/democracys_keeper (768 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Galbraith was born in 1908 in the Scottish farming community of Iona Station, Ontario, Canada on the north shore of Lake Erie.
		Galbraith said, "My father thought we were obliged because of our enormous size to alter the world to our specifications." Galbraith grew to be six foot, eight inches tall.
		In this book Galbraith contended that American society was suffering from a sickness; a sickness that had its roots in the discrepancy between the ideology of competition and the realities of large scale economic enterprises.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/galbrait.htm (634 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		John Kenneth Galbraith is one of the most widely read economists in the United States.
		Galbraith argued that the American economy was dominated by large firms.
		Galbraith was born in Canada and moved to the United States in the thirties.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Galbraith.html (731 words)

	Biographies: The Economists: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ).
		Galbraith was to teach at both California and Princeton before joining the faculty at Harvard in 1948.
		Galbraith, to Friedman8, was a 20th-century version of the early 19th-century Tory Radical of Great Britain.
		John Kenneth Galbraith was a pop star, "fundamentally a one man crusade";11 his "theories have never found any acceptance in the academic world --" He promoted the collectivist religion which believed that coercive government action against the individual would be in the best interests of the collective whole, of society.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Galbraith.htm (1039 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith / Biography
		John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Ontario and educated at the Universities of Toronto, California and Cambridge.[1] In 1939 he was teaching at Princeton and by 1949 was teaching at Harvard.
		Galbraith thought, as so many did in the 1970s, that everything was run by five or six hundred companies, and the "technostructure." "...
		Conclusions John Kenneth Galbraith was a pop star, "fundamentally a one man crusade";[11] his "theories have never found any acceptance in the academic world --" He promoted the collectivist religion which believed that coercive government action against the individual would be in the best interests of the collective whole, of society.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /galbraithbio.html (1057 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith
		John Kenneth Galbraith is professor emeritus of economics at Harvard University.
		Galbraith: I think there's no doubt that the fear, the perception of danger, I would go so far as to say, is perhaps greater in the Soviet Union than it is in the United States, this being the result of a different process of history.
		Galbraith: And it's very important, too, that the people who are involved in the nuclear theology, the specialists, dislike this invasion.
	sun3.lib.uci.edu /racyberlib/Quest/interview-john_kenneth_galbraith.html (3167 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith understood capitalism as lived – not as theorized \| csmonitor.com
		Galbraith's vivid depictions of the good, bad, and ugly of American capitalism remain a sorely needed reminder that all is not quite as perfect as the perfect market models - with their perfect competition, perfect information, and perfectly rational consumers - upon which so much of Friedman's analysis depended.
		Galbraith, who cut his teeth studying agricultural economics, strove to understand the world as it was, with all the problems of unemployment and market power that simplistic models of competitive markets ignore.
		Galbraith saw that the labor market did not work as well as the standard model had predicted; he embraced Keynesian economics, and its call for government action, at a time when the US economics establishment rejected these ideas.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/1228/p09s02-coop.html (885 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Sisyphus as Social Democrat - J. Bradford DeLong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Galbraith sees the United States as a would-be social democracy that has lost its way, assuming that if only the self-serving declarations of the right could be wiped away, the benefits of a bigger, more activist government would become obvious to everyone.
		Galbraith, a committed social democrat, has wielded his pen and his tongue in an effort to halt this decades-long rightward drift.
		Galbraith would say, sardonically, that this national self-image is just another fraudulent piece of conventional wisdom -- nurtured by the delusional, who cannot see reality, and the rich, who see it all too well but know that such delusions make them richer and more powerful.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20050501fareviewessay84312/j-bradford-delong/sisyphus-as-social-democrat.html (1973 words)

	The Observer \| Business \| A man for all markets
		Galbraith has always written beautifully - a source of admiration and sometimes acute envy among fellow economists - and still speaks in measured, rounded sentences, choosing his words carefully, sometimes going back to substitute le mot juste.
		Galbraith is one of the diminishing band who knew John Maynard Keynes - 'one of the great figures in our life, and certainly in mine.
		Galbraith recalls how his wife, who was working on a doctorate on comparative literature, became fed up with the way no day ended and few began 'without seminars with someone or some group on Keynes.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,6903,805309,00.html (1502 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith / Biography
		Although the thesis was not astoundingly new - having long been argued by Veblen, Mitchell and Knight - his attack on the concept of "consumer sovereignty" went against the cornerstone of mainstream economics and, in many ways, the culturally hegemonic "American way of life".
		Galbraith certainly remains one of the better-known economists in post-war America and has worked in various sectors of the economy.
		Besides his work at Harvard and the Office of Price Administration, Galbraith was editor of Fortune magazine for several years, director of the US Strategic Bombing Survey, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action in the late 1960s, television and newspaper commentator, advisor and speechwriter for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /galbraithbio2.html (503 words)

	Emeritus Professor John Kenneth Galbraith's Biography
		Professor Galbraith earned his B.S. degree from the University of Toronto (Ontario Agricultural College) in 1931, and an M.S. (1933) and a Ph.D. (1934) from the University of California, and taught at both California and Princeton before coming to Harvard permanently in 1948.
		Professor Galbraith campaigned with Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, was an economic adviser to Senator John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential race and, as chair of Americans for Democratic Action, supported Senator Eugene McCarthy's bid for the presidency, helping to put his name in nomination at the Democratic Convention in 1968.
		Galbraith reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the academic year and in Newfane, Vermont, in the summer.
	post.economics.harvard.edu /faculty/galbraith/bio.html (601 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Galbraith’s interest in economics began when he was an undergraduate at the Ontario Agricultural College (now the University of Guelph) and he recognized that there was something wrong with a system that produced excellent livestock and excellent crops that could not be sold.
		To further his knowledge on such subjects as economic principles, modern banking, and the economic beliefs of John Maynard Keynes whom he later met when he was granted a fellowship to Cambridge in 1937, he attended lectures given by leading professors.
		His political views and clout were further enhanced in 1960 when he not only wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy and, at the convention that nominated JFK for the presidency, was appointed floor manager for delegates west of the Mississippi.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume5/10-13.htm (1048 words)

	America: 'This is a Crude Government'
		Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, who celebrated his 96th birthday Friday, has lifted the spirits of generations of politicians, officials, economists, students and general readers around the world.
		He had been working on it when we last met two years ago, but he rewrote in between stays in hospital, after the fallout from the Enron crisis proved a dramatic illustration of his thesis that there is nothing that unfettered chief executives will not do to feather their own nests.
		Galbraith, following seminal British economist John Maynard Keynes, writes like a dream, and reading The Affluent Society was one of the factors that led a number of my generation to study economics.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/1018-03.htm (1087 words)

	John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics. A Biography by Richard Parker
		John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics.
		Parker's vibrant, nuanced portrait is enlightening on Galbraith's engagement with his fellow economists and the politics they influenced--from the "Neoclassical Synthesis" and the New Frontier to monetarism, supply-siders, and the conservative revolution of the 1980s and 1990s.
		Parker's account of Galbraith's friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as ambassador to India, is filled with new insights and information about economic policy, about American policy in Asia, and about the heavy influence of the Pentagon's budget on every aspect of public affairs.
	www.johnkennethgalbraith.com (419 words)

	MSN Encarta - John Kenneth Galbraith
		John Kenneth Galbraith, born in 1908, American economist.
		John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Ontario, Canada.
		He was educated at universities in Toronto and California and taught economics from 1934 to 1942, first at Harvard University and later at Princeton University.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564143 (192 words)

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