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Definition of John Kenneth Galbraith

1. Noun. United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908).

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Literary usage of John Kenneth Galbraith

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movement by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"The economist John Kenneth Galbraith advised us in The Good Society () to recreate conditions as they were in the post-Second World War period. ..."

2. Neither Left Nor Right: Selected Columns by Tibor R. Machan (2004)
"... "Freedom" for John Kenneth Galbraith Orange County (California) Register, August 15, 2000 It is a pretty good measure of how far we have come in America ..."

3. CIA and Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968 by Harold P. Ford (1999)
"There is consequent danger we shall replace the French as the colonial forces in the area and bleed as the French did.7 —John Kenneth Galbraith 30 January ..."

4. Initiative: Human Agency and Society by Tibor R. Machan (2000)
"In business ethics, for example, the doctrine of consumer sovereignty is commonly challenged on grounds advanced by John Kenneth Galbraith, namely, ..."

5. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"15 August 1961 letter from Galbraith to Kennedy, quoted in John Kenneth Galbraith, Ambassador's Journal (Boston: Houghton Miflin Company, 1969), p. 164. 18. ..."

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"1956 My father, for around half a century, was the leading Liberal of the community —John Kenneth Galbraith, The Scotch, 1964 Around the turn of the century ..."

7. Bound to Be Free by Richard B. McKenzie (1982)
"John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1967). 9. Walter Lippmann, Unto Caesar, as cited in George H. Nash, ..."

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