John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

OC
John Kenneth Galbraith; OC
7th United States Ambassador to India
	In office; April 18, 1961 – July 12, 1963
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Ellsworth Bunker
Succeeded by	Chester Bowles
Personal details
Born	October 15, 1908; Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
Died	April 29, 2006 (aged 97); Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Catherine Merriam Atwater (m. 1937)
Children	4 including Peter & James
	Academic career
Institution	Harvard University; Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley;
Alma mater	Ontario Agricultural College; University of California, Berkeley;
Influences	Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Gardiner Means, Adolf A. Berle
Contributions	Countervailing power, Technostructure, Conventional wisdom
Awards	Lomonosov Gold Medal (1993); Officer of the Order of Canada (1997); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000)

John Kenneth Galbraith^[a] OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual. He supported liberalism and post-Keynesian economics.^[2]^[3]

Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member.^[4]

A Democrat, he worked under the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration.^[5]^[6]

Galbraith died of natural causes at a hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 29, 2006 at the age of 97.^[6]

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John Kenneth Galbraith OC


7th United States Ambassador to India
In office April 18, 1961 – July 12, 1963
President	John F. Kennedy
Preceded by	Ellsworth Bunker
Succeeded by	Chester Bowles

Personal details
Born	(1908-10-15)October 15, 1908 Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
Died	April 29, 2006(2006-04-29) (aged 97) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Catherine Merriam Atwater (m. 1937)
Children	4 including Peter & James
Academic career

Institution	Harvard University Princeton University University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Ontario Agricultural College University of California, Berkeley
Influences	Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Gardiner Means, Adolf A. Berle
Contributions	Countervailing power, Technostructure, Conventional wisdom
Awards	Lomonosov Gold Medal (1993) Officer of the Order of Canada (1997) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000)