Books/Writings
  • The Affluent Society
    (Available New)
  • The Age of Uncertainty
    (Available New)
J. Kenneth Galbraith
1908 – 2006
Canadian

Economist. He served as president of the American Economic Association, wrote best-selling books, and was appointed by President Kennedy to be ambassador to India. But events largely overtook his principal economic thesis, laid out in the 1950's and 1960's, that American businesses had developed into vast monopolies that were invulnerable to competition.

Contemporaries
1879–1962Vilhjalmur Stefansson
1844–1910Joshua Slocum
1860–1946Ernest Seton
1880–1960Mack Sennett
1860–1943Sir Charles Roberts
1932–2001David McTaggart
1911–1980Marshall McLuhan
1912–1991Northrop Frye
1891–1979Charles Coughlin
1894–1956William Bishop
1899–1939Norman Bethune
1879–1964Max Beaverbrook
1891–1941Sir Frederick Grant Banting
1878–1966Elizabeth Arden