John Kenneth Galbraith | |
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7th United States Ambassador to India | |
In office April 18, 1961 – July 12, 1963 | |
President | John F. Kennedy |
Preceded by | Ellsworth Bunker |
Succeeded by | Chester Bowles |
Personal details | |
Born | Iona Station, Ontario, Canada | October 15, 1908
Died | April 29, 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 97)
Spouse(s) | |
Children | 4 including Peter & James |
Academic career | |
Institution | |
Alma mater | |
Influences | Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Gardiner Means, Adolf A. Berle |
Contributions | Countervailing power, Technostructure, Conventional wisdom |
Awards | Lomonosov Gold Medal (1993) Officer of the Order of Canada (1997) ![]() |
John Kenneth Galbraith[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual. He supported liberalism and post-Keynesian economics.[2][3]
Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member.[4]
A Democrat, he worked under the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration.[5][6]
Galbraith died of natural causes at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 29, 2006 at the age of 97.[6]
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