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Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006
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1908-2006
History
John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has been at Harvard University where he was Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics (1959-75) and since 1975 Professor Emeritus. Galbraith was an advisor and speechwriter to John F. Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, and George McGovern. Galbraith has authored and co-authored close to fifty books, mostly on economics. 'The Affluent Society' was his most celebrated and popular work.