John Kenneth Galbraith

Galbraith, John Kenneth (15 Oct, 1908-29 Apr. 2006), economist and author, was born in Iona Station, Ontario (Canada) to Archibald Galbraith and Sarah Catherine Kendall. Galbraith, who advanced and reinterpreted institutionalist and Keynesian traditions in economics while promoting a liberal and progressive political agenda, was arguably the best known and most influential economist and public intellectual of his generation. He published dozens of books, served in a number of high level government positions and as a faculty member at Harvard University for over a quarter of a century, and advised every Democratic president from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton