John Kenneth Galbraith, a longtime professor of economics whose bestselling books challenged the idea that a surging economy was a measure of social excellence and instead urged government to divert ...

John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure. As William Greider wrote ...

AMBASSADOR’S JOURNAL by John Kenneth Galbraith. 656 pages. Houghfon M/ffl/n. $10. One of the inalienable rights of ex-Presidents, ex-generals and ex-ambassadors—and their ex-secretaries, ex-Jeep ...

THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE by John Kenneth Galbraith. 427 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $6.95. Who really runs the U.S. economy? Not the same kind of people who did a few years ago, says that fashionably ...

John Kenneth Galbraith, the iconoclastic economist, teacher and diplomat and an unapologetically liberal member of the political and academic establishment he often needled in prolific writings for ...