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The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

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Author Biography

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
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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
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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...


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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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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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Galbraith's Rich Career: Epic in Scope, Still Timely
6/5/2005: 1,688 words, approx. 6 pages
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 820 pages, $35.I've heard just about enough from the founding fathers. Over the last decade, many of the big publishing events in biography have involved appreciations and reappraisals of...
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Once More Into the Breach: Refining a Plan to End Poverty
4/24/2005: 1,709 words, approx. 6 pages
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95. Consider the banality of modern-day evil: As Jeffrey Sachs reminds us in his new book, eight million impoverished men, women and children are condemned to death each...
 


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