American · b. 1908
John Kenneth Galbraith was a Canadian-American economist, one of the most widely read of the twentieth century, author of The Affluent Society and The Great Crash, 1929.
John Kenneth Galbraith was a leading liberal economist, Harvard professor, presidential adviser, and diplomat, famous for writing about economics with wit, clarity, and a wide public audience in mind.
His bestseller The Affluent Society (1958) critiqued postwar America’s private wealth amid public squalor and coined the phrase “conventional wisdom.” The Great Crash, 1929 remains a classic account of the stock market collapse and its causes. The New Industrial State extended his analysis of modern corporate capitalism.
Galbraith is remembered as one of the most influential and accessible economic thinkers of his era, a public intellectual who shaped debate on capitalism, affluence, and the role of government.
by John Kenneth Galbraith
The definitive account of the 1929 stock market crash — the speculative bubble, the collapse, and the economic consequences that shaped modern financial regulation.
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