# John Kenneth Galbraith

> An economist whose books actually sold. Galbraith made the dismal science readable for millions across five decades, then proved you could stabilize an entire wartime economy without letting it explode into inflation - and still have time to write novels and end up on Nixon's enemies list.

*Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908-2006)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Canada
- **Born:** 1908-10-15
- **Died:** 2006-04-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born October 15, 1908, Galbraith moved from Canada to become the kind of public intellectual America doesn't really make anymore: a Harvard economist for half a century who also ran wartime price controls, served four presidents, and ambassadored to India under Kennedy. He wrote from an institutionalist, post-Keynesian slant and turned out four dozen books - among them the trilogy American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967) - plus a thousand articles and several novels, all of it read. His outspokenness in Democratic circles earned him both the World War II Medal of Freedom in 1946 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000, and a spot on Nixon's master list of political opponents during Watergate. He died April 29, 2006, leaving behind the rare career in which intellectual rigor and popular reach actually converged.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 57.6
- **Momentum:** 0.1

## Platforms
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## Timeline
- **2006** - Died
- **2000** - Presidential Medal of Freedom
- **2000** - Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought
- **1994** - Lysenko Prize
- **1985** - Humanist of the Year
- **1985** - Four Freedoms Award - Freedom from Want
- **1972** - Honorary Doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- **1959** - The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
- **1946** - Medal of Freedom
- **1908** - Born

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