John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was born in 1908 in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada, the son of Scotch-Canadian farmers. He studied agricultural economics at the University of Toronto and later earned his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. He became an American citizen and spent the bulk of his career at Harvard University, where he taught economics for decades. During World War II, he served as deputy administrator of the Office of Price Administration, and he later served as United States Ambassador to India under President Kennedy. Towering in both stature and intellect, standing six feet eight inches tall, Galbraith moved easily between academia, government, journalism, and public life. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Affluent Society.