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<!-- Biography -- History -- Political Science -- Economics --> For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. His articulate and controversial best-selling books-including The Affluent Society , Economics and the Public Purpose , and The New Industrial State -and his very partisan liberal Democrat political and public service activities secured a place for him among the rich and famous of his time. He worked as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, served as U.S. ambassador to India (1961-1963), and edited Fortune magazine during the mid-1940s. Among American economists of any era, he is rivaled only by Thorstein Veblen for the introduction of phrases that take on a life of their own in the literate idiom. Such Galbraithian phrases as "the conventional wisdom" and the "affluent society" have become familiar even beyond Galbraith's remarkably wide readership. No other economist of the twentieth century, excepting perhaps John Maynard Keynes, can claim so secure a place in the belles-lettres of the English-speaking world. This collection of interviews documents the long career of an influential econ

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith; J Ron Stanfield; Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield

Publisher

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781578066100

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, History