John Kenneth Galbraith

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John Kenneth Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908–April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and the 1960s.

Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years. Galbraith was active in politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnso...more

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	The Great Crash of 1929 388 avg rating — 701 ratings — published 1954 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Affluent Society 391 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1958 — 26 editions	My rating:
	A Short History of Financial Euphoria 391 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith, James K. Galbraith (Foreword by), Sean Wilentz (Introduction) 384 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1967 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Good Society: The Humane Agenda 364 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went 380 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth for Our Time 362 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Age of Uncertainty 398 avg rating — 40 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	A History Of Economics: The Past As The Present 418 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Tenured Professor 320 avg rating — 45 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:

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“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
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“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
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