John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Books John Kenneth Galbraith has authored
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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John Kenneth Galbraith • July 1, 1994 • Business & Money
The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth ce...
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The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith • September 10, 2009 • Business & Money
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Economic writings are seldom nota...
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