John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006)

• born on Oct. 15, 1908 in Iona Station, Ontario
• died April 29, 2006 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachussetts
• educated at the Ontario Agricultural College, University of California, and Cambridge
• taught at Princeton and Harvard
• National Defense Advisory Commission
• Deputy Administrator, U.S. Office of Price Administration
• editor, Fortune magazine (1943-1948)
• director of the Strategic Bombing Survey (1946)
• director of the Office of Economic Security (1946)
• Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University since 1949
• American ambassador to India (1961-63)
• national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (1967-69)
• Non-Fiction:
  • Modern Competition and Business Policy (1938)
  • A Theory of Price Control (1952)
  • American Capitalism (1952)
  • The Great Crash: 1929 (1955)
  • The Affluent Society (1958)
  • The Liberal Hour (1960)
  • Ambassador's Journal (1969)
  • The New Industrial State (revised 1971)
  • Economics and the Public Purpose (1973)
  • Money (1975)
  • Age of Uncertainty (1977)
  • A Journey Through Economic Time (1994)
  • The Good Society:The Humane Agenda (1996)
• Novels:
  • The Triumph (1968)
  • A Tenured Professor (1990)
• biography: John Kenneth Galbraith (1975) by John S. Gambs

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