Biography

John Kenneth Galbraith is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and was the US ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. His works
The Great Crash 1929, The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, and Economics and the Public Purpose are landmarks of political and economic analysis.
He is internationally known for his development of Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics, the economics of the modem large firm, as well as for his writing and his active involvement in American politics.