John Kenneth Galbraith, who died on April 29 at the age of 97, was one of the most prominent American economists of the 20th century. He advised three generations of Democratic Party leaders, most ...

Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with author Richard Parker about his new biography of America’s best-known and most widely published economist John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, ...

I am rereading "The Affluent Society" with pleasure and profit. Written by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1958, "The Affluent Society" survives as one of the most ...

John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment he often needled in prolific writings for ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Kenneth Galbraith was an Economist for the American Enterprise Institute with 30 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1964 Compiled Program as a ...

I am rereading "The Affluent Society" with pleasure and profit. Written by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and published in 1958, "The Affluent Society" survives as one of the most ...

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, as well as generations of ...

According to Galbraith, quoted approvingly as “seminal” by Sorkin, the worst day of the Great Crash — Tuesday, October 29 — ...

John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure. As William Greider wrote ...

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society, died Saturday night, his son said. He was ...

Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...