Author

Books by John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was an American economist, diplomat, and public intellectual who lived from 1908 to 2006. He taught at Harvard for decades and served as US Ambassador to India under President Kennedy. He was the author of more than 30 books, including The Great Crash 1929, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State, several of which became bestsellers. He advised four US presidents and was one of the most prominent public economists of the twentieth century. A Short History of Financial Euphoria, published in 1990, was one of his last works and is among his most concentrated.