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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)

Author of The Affluent Society

Includes the names: Mark Epernay, Galbraith J.K., J. K. Galbraith, John K. Galbraith, John K. Galbraith, John K. Galbratih, John Kenn Galbraith, J. Kenneth Galbraith, J. Kenneth Galbraith, John Kennet Galbraith ... (see complete list), Galbraith John Kenneth, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Gallbraith, Galbraith; John Kenneth Galbraith; John Kenneth Galbraith; John Kenneth Galbraith

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The Affluent Society 1,463 copies, 9 reviews
The Great Crash 1929 1,462 copies, 21 reviews
The New Industrial State 665 copies, 6 reviews
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went 375 copies, 4 reviews
The Age of Uncertainty 371 copies
The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time 294 copies, 8 reviews
A Life in Our Times 283 copies, 3 reviews
The Culture of Contentment 281 copies, 3 reviews
A Short History of Financial Euphoria 260 copies, 8 reviews
Economics and the Public Purpose 238 copies, 1 review
The Good Society: The Humane Agenda 224 copies, 4 reviews
American Capitalism : The Concept of Countervailing Power 202 copies, 2 reviews
A Tenured Professor 189 copies, 2 reviews
A History of Economics: The Past as the Present (Penguin Economics) 173 copies, 2 reviews
Ambassador’s Journal 170 copies, 2 reviews
A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View 164 copies
The Anatomy of Power 162 copies
Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics 156 copies, 1 review
The Triumph 137 copies
Name-Dropping: From FDR On 120 copies, 3 reviews
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History 120 copies
Galbraith: The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967: American… 120 copies
Economics, Peace and Laughter 118 copies
The Liberal Hour 116 copies, 1 review
The Non-potable Scotch 95 copies, 2 reviews
The Essential Galbraith 77 copies, 1 review
The Nature of Mass Poverty 76 copies, 2 reviews
The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View 52 copies, 1 review
A China Passage 50 copies, 1 review
The Galbraith Reader 42 copies
Annals of an Abiding Liberal 39 copies
A View from the Stands: Of People, Politics, Military Power, and the Arts 35 copies
Capitalism, Communism, and Coexistence: From the Bitter Past to a Better… 34 copies, 1 review
How to Control the Military 30 copies, 1 review
The Voice of the Poor: Essays in Economic and Political Persuasion 30 copies
Economic development 29 copies
Economics and the Art of Controversy 23 copies
Letters to Kennedy 21 copies
The McLandress dimension 17 copies
How to get out of Vietnam;: A workable solution to the worst problem of… 11 copies
Who needs the democrats, and what it takes to be needed 10 copies
A Theory of Price Control 8 copies
World Reference Encyclopedia 8 copies
The Socially Concerned Today 7 copies
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces India (Introduction) 4 copies
不確実性の時代 上 4 copies
L'art d'ignorer les pauvres : Suivi de Economistes en guerre… 4 copies
The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith 4 copies
不確実性の時代　下 4 copies
Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia 4 copies
Interviews With John Kenneth Galbraith (Conversations With Public… 4 copies
Maktens anatomi 3 copies
Economia y subversión 3 copies, 1 review
The underdeveloped country 2 copies
Economie hétérodoxe 2 copies
The Scotch by John Kenneth Galbraith (1985-08-01) 2 copies
Il potere militare negli Stati Uniti 2 copies
LA CRISIS DE LAS SOCIEDADES INDUSTRIALES 2 copies
La economía y el arte de la controversia 1 copy, 1 review
Epävarmuuden aika 1 copy
Der große Crash 1929: Ursachen, Verlauf, Folgen 1 copy
Die Tyrannei der Umstände. Ursachen und Folgen unseres Zeitalters der… 1 copy
Desarrollo económico 1 copy
Społeczeństwo dobrobytu państwo przemysłowe 1 copy
La pobreza de las masas 1 copy, 1 review
Estados Unidos y el Fin de la Hegemonía 1 copy
La crise économique de 1929: anatomie d'une catastrophe… 1 copy
Dreams of India 1 copy
L'economia e la qualità della vita 1 copy
O poder e o economista útil - Revista Argumento, 2 1 copy
Oekonomi og samfunn 1 copy
Usikkerhetens tidsalder 1 copy
The American left and some British comparisons 1 copy
Perspectives on conservation; essays on America's natural resources 1 copy
PERSPECTIVAS ECONOMICAS 1 copy
How Keynes came to America 1 copy
La paix indésirable ? : Rapport sur l'utilité des… 1 copy
Nationalekonomin och samhällsintresset 1 copy
Økonomiens profeter 1 copy
Veliki slom 1929. : kako nastaju velike svjetske krize : s novim autorovim… 1 copy
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McLandress, Herschel
Epernay, Mark (pseudonym)
Date of birth
1908-10-15
Date of death
2006-04-29
Burial location
Indian Hill Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
Canada
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
Place of death
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Cause of death
natural causes at the age of 97
Places of residence
Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
Dunwich Township, Ontario, Canada
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Education
Dutton High School
Ontario Agricultural College (BS ∙ Agricultural Economics)
University of California, Berkeley (MS ∙ Agricultural Economics)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD ∙ Agricultural Economics)
Occupations
economist
professor
United States Ambassador to India (1961-1963)
editor
Director of the Office of Economic Security Policy
Relationships
Galbraith, James K. (son)
Galbraith, Peter W. (son)
Bringa, Tone (daughter-in-law)
Organizations
Americans for Democratic Action
Harvard University
Princeton University
US State Department
University of California, Berkeley
Awards and honors
BBC Reith Lecturer (1966)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1993)
Medal of Freedom (1946)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000)
Order of Canada (1997)
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