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.
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![Photograph was taken between 1940 and 1946 "I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case." - C-SPAN, November 13, 1994[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/JohnKennethGalbraithOWI.jpg)
Photograph was taken between 1940 and 1946 "I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, 'I'm in favor of privatization,' or, 'I'm deeply in favor of public ownership.' I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case." - C-SPAN, November 13, 1994[17]
Galbraith at left, as US ambassador to India, with President John F. Kennedy, Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, 1961
Galbraith and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the US Chancery, New DelhiAwards 17
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Herbert MarcuseAlso in The Nagging Thoughts (1970)
Corrado FarinaAlso in The Nagging Thoughts (1970)
Pierre BourdieuAlso won Lysenko Prize
Javier Pérez de CuéllarAlso won honorary doctorate from University of Paris-II
Daniel KahnemanAlso won Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought
Carl RogersAlso won Humanist of the YearAbout this person
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.
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