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The New York Review of Books -- John Kenneth Galbraith - Links to reviews and articles published by John Kenneth Galbraith in the New York Review of Books, plus a bibliography of Galbraith's books.
Aphorisms - A few aphorisms by John Kenneth Galbraith.
John Kenneth Galbraith - Biography, bibliography, resources and links.
Biography: The Economists - Contains a brief biography and commentary on a few of the major works.
Interview: Berkeley - Part of Berkeley's "Conversations With History" series.
Interview: Booknotes - Transcript of an interview on CNN's Booknotes program.
Interview: Nieman Foundation - Transcript of a seminar given at the Nieman Foundation.
Review: Name-Dropping - The Atlantic review of 'Name-Dropping: From FDR On.'

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John Kenneth Galbraith - John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908–April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism.
Economics and the Public Purpose - Economics and the Public Purpose is a 1973 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith advocates a "new socialism" as the solution, nationalising military production and public services such as health care.
The New Industrial State - The New Industrial State is a 1967 book by John Kenneth Galbraith. In it, Galbraith asserts that in modern capitalist societies, the traditional balance of supply and demand becomes distorted in several different ways, for example as suppliers use advertising and other means to shape demand to their own ends.
American Capitalism - John Kenneth Galbraith penned American Capitalism - The Concept of Countervailing Power in 1952. The book is an overlooked gem, containing a trenchant critique of the conventional wisdom that markets, left to their own devices, will provide socially optimal solutions.
François de Callières - ... as The Practice of Diplomacy), based on his experiences in negotiating the Treaty and having its origins in a letter to the Regent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans, became a textbook for eighteenth-century diplomacy: Thomas Jefferson had a copy in his library at Monticello. On this book John Kenneth Galbraith declared "One wonders why anything more needed to be said on the subject.