Noun
United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)
Source: WordNetJohn Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations. Amartya Sen
According to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the rebound of the economy from wartime spending, "one could not have had a better demonstration of the Keynesian ideas." Source: Internet
"All successful revolutions," as John Kenneth Galbraith said, "are the kicking in of a rotten door." Source: Internet
John Kenneth Galbraith, who I must say was one of Mr. Buckley’s closest friends, big-time leftist economist, hated consumerism, hated advertising, because he looked at it as a total — what’s the word? Source: Internet
For an argument that the existence of modern corporations is incompatible with the neoclassical economics, see John Kenneth Galbraith (1978). Source: Internet
This approach can work, when it truly represents what John Kenneth Galbraith termed countervailing power—when one large economic force counteracts another and prevents excessive advantage. Source: Internet