John Kenneth Galbraith
Canadian-American economist and public intellectual whose The Affluent Society argued that America was rich in private goods and poor in public ones. The New Industrial State examined the corporation's role in managing demand. He wrote with wit and accessibility that made him the most read economist of his era.
Works
- The Affluent SocietyCritique of consumer culture and private wealth amid public poverty
- The New Industrial StateAnalysis of how large corporations now drive government policy and economy
- American CapitalismExamination of capitalism, socialism, and free enterprise in America
- The Great Crash 1929Narrative history of the 1929 stock market crash and economic collapse
- The Age of UncertaintySurvey of twentieth-century intellectual and economic thought