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John Kenneth Galbraith

1908–2006

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was a Canadian-American economist, public intellectual, and diplomat whose work challenged mainstream neoclassical economics. He served as an advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and was a prolific author known for his witty, accessible critiques of corporate power, consumerism, and economic inequality.

Economics

The Affluent Society (1958)
The New Industrial State (1967)
Economics and the Public Purpose (1973)
The Great Crash, 1929 (1955)
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1952)
The Age of Uncertainty (1977)
A Life in Our Times (1981, memoir)
The Culture of Contentment (1992)
The Good Society: The Humane Agenda (1996)

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