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The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Name: John Kenneth Galbraith
Birth Date: October 15, 1908
Place of Birth: Ontario, Canada
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: scholar, economist

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Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith
967 words, approx. 3.2 pages
John Kenneth Galbraith was a leading scholar of the American Institutionalist school and arguably the most famous economist in the post-World War II world. His views were a stinging indictment of the modern materialistic society that championed personal...
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Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith
1879 words, approx. 6.3 pages
John Kenneth Galbraith (born 1908) was a leading scholar of the American Institutionalist school and arguably the most famous economist in the post World War II world. His views were a stinging indictment of the modern materialistic society that champion...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Affluent Society Information
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The Affluent Society is a 1958 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post-World War II America was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector,...


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The Washington Post
Measles Cases Rebounding in Affluent Society
09/22/2003: 1,140 words, approx. 4 pages
A case of measles was once a rite of passage for every child, and a route to the grave for about one in every 300. Worldwide, there are still 30 million to 40 million cases a year, and 745,000 deaths, mostly in Africa....
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The Boston Globe
The Affluent Galbraith
05/02/2006: 764 words, approx. 3 pages
SAN FRANCISCO THE CALL from Stockholm never came. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for economics to some of his friends and an occasional foe, but it did not call John Kenneth Galbraith. Nobel apologists cited trends in mathematics and...
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greatreporter.com
Galbraith, John Kenneth
12/31/2006: 341 words, approx. 1 pages
Canadian-born American economist (Oct. 15, 1908, Iona Station, Ont.—d. April 29, 2006, Cambridge, Mass. ), was known for his support of public spending and for the literary quality of his writing on public affairs. After study at the University of Toronto (B.S., 1931) and the...
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AP News
Johnson leaves environmental legacy
7/11/2007: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
When you see a pretty vista along an interstate highway, unmarred by a junkyard or a billboard telling you to Eat at Joe's, you can thank Lady Bird Johnson.Johnson loved nature and Texas wildflowers, and her devotion to the beauty and usefulness of native plants...
 


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