John Kenneth Galbraith

Why Is John Kenneth Galbraith Influential?

According to Wikipedia, John Kenneth Galbraith , also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.

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John Kenneth Galbraith's Published Works

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Published Papers

The New Industrial State (1968) (3271)
The Affluent Society (1958) (2582)
American Capitalism; The Concept of Countervailing Power (1952) (1008)
Economics and the Public Purpose (1974) (606)
The Great Crash, 1929 (1956) (567)
The Great Crash* (1979) (523)
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1957) (460)
A Short History of Financial Euphoria (1993) (329)
The Culture of Contentment (1992) (304)
The Anatomy of Power (1983) (280)
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1977) (241)
The Nature of Mass Poverty (1979) (236)
Does Presence of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Enhance Biomass and Biodiversity? (2013) (174)
The Age of Uncertainty (1977) (136)
Power and the Useful Economist (1973) (134)
The economics of innocent fraud : truth for our time (2004) (128)
AN ANNOTATED LIST OF DEEPWATER FISHES FROM OFF THE NEW ENGLAND REGION, WITH NEW AREA RECORDS (2003) (125)
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History (1987) (124)
Who Decides?- Economics & Politics@@@Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order@@@The New Industrial State@@@New Dimensions of Political Economy (1968) (121)
A life in our times (1981) (120)
A History of Economics: The Past as the Present (1987) (108)
The Economics of Innocent Fraud (2004) (96)
The effect of trabeculectomy on refraction, keratometry and corneal topography (1995) (82)
The good society : the humane agenda (1996) (77)
Market Structure and Stabilization Policy (1957) (76)
A life in our times : memoirs (1981) (69)
Economics as a System of Belief (1970) (60)
Biodiversity of Bear Seamount, New England Seamount chain: Results of exploratory trawling (2003) (59)
Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years (1969) (59)
The Concept of Marginal Land (1932) (59)
Marketing Efficiency in Puerto Rico (1957) (56)
Economics Peace and Laughter (1981) (53)
Economic Development in Perspective (1964) (47)
The Maintenance of Agricultural Production During Depression: The Explanations Reviewed (1938) (45)
A Theory of Price Control (1952) (43)
Northeast Fisheries Science Center bottom trawl survey protocols for the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow (2014) (42)
Economics and the Quality of Life. (1964) (39)
How to control the military (1969) (36)
Annals of an abiding liberal (1979) (36)
Monopoly Power and Price Rigidities (1936) (35)
Deep-Pelagic (0–3000 m) Fish Assemblage Structure Over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Area of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone (2013) (33)
Mass Media Functions, Knowledge and Social Control (2011) (30)
Additional Records of Deep-sea Fishes from off Greater New England (2008) (29)
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went. (1977) (29)
How Keynes came to America (1965) (26)
Almost everyone's guide to economics (1978) (25)
A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View (1994) (24)
A Positive Approach to Economic Aid (1961) (23)
The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View (1994) (22)
The Essential Galbraith (2001) (22)
Patterns of distribution of deepwater demersal fishes of the North Atlantic mid-ocean ridge, continental slopes, islands and seamounts (2012) (21)
Conditions for Economic Change in Underdeveloped Countries (1951) (21)
A contemporary guide to economics peace and laughter : essays (1971) (19)
Fishes of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Collected During the MAR-ECO Cruise in June/July 2004 (2006) (19)
Rational and Irrational Consumer Preference (1938) (18)
Economic Development: Revised Edition (2013) (18)
A China Passage (1973) (18)
Economics in the Century Ahead (1991) (17)
Recollections Of The New Deal: When the People Mattered (1992) (17)
On Post Keynesian Economics (1978) (17)
Reflections on Price Control (1946) (16)
Value-added sampling for fishery independent surveys: Don’t stop after you’re done counting and measuring (2008) (16)
The Veblen-Commons Award (1977) (15)
The Structure of the American Economy. Part I. Basic Characteristics, Gardiner C. Means and Staff, National Resources Committee. Washington, D. C. 1939. Pp. viii+396. $1.00 (1940) (13)
American Capitalism. The Concept of Counter-Vailing Power (1954) (13)
Cephalopod species collected by deepwater exploratory fishing off New England (2001) (12)
The socially concerned today (1998) (12)
Rival Economic Theories in India (1958) (11)
Economics and the art of controversy (1959) (11)
The Good Society Considered: The Economic Dimension (1994) (11)
Time and the New Industrial State (1988) (11)
The Selection and Timing of Inflation Controls (1941) (11)
Keynes, Roosevelt, and the Complementary Revolutions (1984) (10)
Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia (1958) (10)
Professor Gordon on "The Close of the Galbraithian System" (1969) (9)
A Tenured Professor (1990) (9)
The affluent society and other writings 1952-1967 (2010) (9)
Princely India: Photographs by Raja Deen Dayal, 1884-1910 (1980) (8)
Leptoderma macrophthalmum n.sp., a new species of smooth-head (Otocephala: Alepocephalidae) from the Mid Atlantic Ridge (2011) (8)
Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence: From the Bitter Past to a Better Prospect (1989) (8)
A View from the Stands: Of People, Politics, Military Power, and the Arts (1986) (8)
A Look Back: Affirmation and Error (1989) (7)
Letters to Kennedy (1998) (7)
The Quantitative Position of Marketing in the United States (1935) (7)
Capitalism, communism and coexistence (1988) (6)
The Voice of the Poor: Essays in Economic and Political Persuasion (1983) (6)
Can Europe unite (1931) (6)
Indian painting : the scene,themes and legends (1969) (6)
The Technostructure, Forty-Six Years Later (1968) (5)
The Conservative Onslaught (1981) (5)
Are Public Libraries against Liberty (1979) (5)
The economics of the arms race—and after (1981) (5)
Economics, peace and laughter : a contemporary guide (1975) (5)
The McLandress dimension (1968) (5)
Isn't it funny? (1994) (5)
Conversation with an Inconvenient Economist (1973) (5)
Recovery in Europe (1946) (5)
Puerto Rican Lessons in Economic Development (1953) (5)
Hereditary Land in the Third Reich (1939) (4)
Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004) (4)
Introduction to the American Journal of Agricultural Economics' 75th Anniversary Issue (1993) (4)
Who needs the democrats, and what it takes to be needed (1970) (4)
Reaganomics : meaning, means, and ends (1983) (4)
The Twilight of American Capitalism. An Economic Interpretation of the New Deal. (1938) (4)
Puerto Rico's Economic Future: A Study in Planned Development. (1951) (4)
Joan Robinson: a word of appreciation (1983) (4)
Technology in the Developed Economy (1973) (4)
Ideology and Economic Reality (1989) (4)
The struggle for a democratic Austria : Bruno Kreisky on peace and social justice (2003) (4)
The Balance of Payments: A Political and Administrative View (1964) (3)
The Public Sector Is Still Starved (1967) (3)
The Triumph: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy (1968) (3)
The economic effects of the federal public works expenditures, 1933-1938 (2011) (3)
Can We Solve the Farm Problem? Murray R. Benedict, New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1955. Pp. xix, 601. $5.00 (1956) (3)
The Lost Massey Lectures: Recovered Classics from Five Great Thinkers (2007) (3)
A tenured professor : a novel (1990) (3)
American Capitalism. The Concept of Countervailing Power (1953) (3)
11. Light engineering and the very late starters (1991) (3)
What went wrong (1987) (3)
Opinion: The Plain Lessons of a Bad Decade (1970) (3)
John Maynard Keynes: From Retrospect to Prospect (1998) (3)
The Case for and against National Economic Planning (1976) (3)
The Strategy of Direct Control in Economic Mobilization (1951) (3)
The Autonomous Military Power: An Economic View (1994) (3)
Branch Banking and Its Bearing Upon Agricultural Credit (1934) (3)
The Great Crash (1975) (3)
Professor Despres on "Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy" (1947) (3)
Graduate Education for Women: The Radcliffe Ph.D. (1956) (3)
Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. on (1999) (3)
The Second Imperial Requiem (1982) (3)
The Federal Land Banks and Agricultural Stability (1937) (2)
Defense of the multinational company (1978) (2)
Modern Competition and Business Policy (2012) (2)
Seymour Edwin Harris (1975) (2)
CORPORATIONS IN THE EIGHTIES (1974) (2)
The non-potable Scotch : a memoir on the clansmen in Canada (1967) (2)
Mr. Hunter on Countervailing Power: A Comment (1959) (2)
APPENDIX. ECONOMIC POWER IN THE AMERICAN SETTING (1958) (2)
Public Administration and the Public Corporation ∗ (1961) (2)
Appraisals of New Fabian Essays (1953) (2)
Agriculture and Competitive Structure (1954) (2)
A Comment on Market Structure and Stabilization Policy: Reply (1958) (2)
How to get out of Vietnam : a workable solution to the worst problem of our time (1967) (2)
The University: Reflections over the Years. (1992) (2)
The English Cooperatives (1938) (2)
Mr. Gray on Caricature (1957) (2)
The Commitment to Innocent Fraud (1999) (2)
Science and Ceremony (1976) (2)
Galbraith on Market Structure and Stabilization Policy: Comment (1958) (2)
Why Diplomats Clam Up (1965) (1)
On the methodology and political economy of Galbraithian economics (2012) (1)
A Note on Wilcox's Review (1957) (1)
The Social Consensus and the Conservative Onslaught (1982) (1)
All Washington’s gone AVOL … voluntarily (1978) (1)
A comparison of acridine orange, gram stain and culture for the detection of organisms in ocular specimens (1993) (1)
Change and the Planning System, from The New Industrial State (2007) (1)
Economics: Unequal Development and the Theory of Social Action (1973) (1)
Dentists shaping their own future. (1990) (1)
Permanent Aspects of Supply and Price Adjustment in Agriculture (1939) (1)
American Capitalism@@@American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (1953) (1)
Has Programmed Trading Made Stock Prices More Volalile (1987) (1)
Book Review:The Production Credit System for Farmers Earl L. Butz (1946) (1)
Book Review:Arsenal of Democracy: The Story of American War Production Donald M. Nelson (1947) (1)
Wartime Government in Operation, W. H. Nicholls and John A. Vieg, The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia. 1943. Pp. xiii, 109. $1.50 (1944) (1)
John Kenneth Galbraith : the economic legacy (2012) (1)
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces India (1974) (1)
5. THE GERMAN ECONOMY (1948) (1)
Foreword Globalization: What It Is and What To Do About It (2002) (1)
Farm Mortgage Loan RepaymentA Survey of Existing Plans and Some Possible Alternatives (1937) (1)
Mar-Eco expedition to the mid-Atlantic ridge [4/7 - 5/8, 2004] (2004) (1)
The Geophysical Institute Magnetometer Array: Making Real-Time Geophysical Measurements Available for Operational Space Weather Needs (2008) (1)
Nicholas Kaldor Remembered (1991) (1)
The New Monetary System of the United States, by R. A. Young, New York: The National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., 1934. Pp. ix, 147. $2.00 (1935) (1)
3. FOOD RETAILING (1955) (1)
An International Commodity Clearinghouse (1949) (1)
Transition 1 (8) (1990) (1)
Book Review The Oldest Old Edited by Richard M. Suzman, David P. Willis, and Kenneth G. Manton. 444 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $65. 0-19-505060-6 (1994) (1)
The Galbraith Reader: From the Works of John Kenneth Galbraith (1977) (1)
Richard Goodwin Retrospective (1990) (1)
Nicholas Kaldor. Grand Masters in Economics Series. (1988) (1)
The Great Ecology Issue: Conservation in the Free Market (2014) (1)
Mobilization Economics@@@War and Defense Economics@@@A Theory of Price Control@@@The Economics of Mobilization and Inflation@@@Defense Without Inflation@@@Financing Defense@@@Mobilizing Resources for War (1953) (1)
Deep-Pelagic (0-3000 m) Fish Assemblage Structure over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Relative to the North Atlantic Subpolar Front (2010) (1)
Tax Study, in Thirteen Lessons. Text by Jens P. Jensen and Harold Howe. Kansas Chamber of Commerce and cooperating agencies, Topeka, 1932. 85 cents (1933) (1)
9. A Digression on the Firm under Socialism (2007) (0)
James Galbraith, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin (2000) (0)
III. The Choice (1964) (0)
European Recovery: the Longer View (1950) (0)
THE GROUNDWORK OF DYNAMICS. (1897) (0)
The new industrial state FOTO POUZE ILUSTRAČNÍ (1985) (0)
TOUR OF WARSAW (1958) (0)
II The Political Origins of Εrrοr (1979) (0)
2. THE PROBLEM IN ITS SETTING (1955) (0)
5. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ATTITUDES (1955) (0)
13. THE CONTEXT OF POLICY (1955) (0)
General Editor’s Introduction (2007) (0)
MORE ON AGRICULTURE (1958) (0)
V. Developing and Developed (1964) (0)
Modern essays on economics (1981) (0)
Farm Policy: The Current Position (1955) (0)
America and Weastern Europe (1950) (0)
CHAPTER III. The Ph.D. in the Professions (1956) (0)
LAST DAY IN WARSAW (1958) (0)
11. RETAILING OF NON-FOOD PRODUCTS (1955) (0)
IIΙ The Equilibrium of Poverty (1979) (0)
From Soft Islam to Postmodern Populism ‐ Winter 2003 (2008) (0)
4 The Disequilibrium System (1980) (0)
Overlap Between Pelagic and Demersal Fishes at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2006) (0)
14. The Principle of Consistency (2007) (0)
Technicians in Modern Capitalism (1983) (0)
TOUR OF LUBLIN (1958) (0)
The large firm, Keynesianism, price control and economic development (2012) (0)
DRIVE INTO SERBIA (1958) (0)
15. MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE MARKETING SYSTEM: DIRECT STEPS (1955) (0)
8. THE OPTIMAL WHOLESALE UNIT (1955) (0)
FREE MONEY; M.ORE ECONOMICS (1958) (0)
CHAPTER VIII. The Financing of Graduate Education (1956) (0)
6 THE LIQUIDATION OF THE SYSTEM (1980) (0)
J. K. Galbraith, The nature of mass poverty (1982) (0)
The Harvard College Economist Thank You (2002) (0)
Peer Culture [Book Chapter] (2007) (0)
THE POLISH ECONOMIC SOCIETY (1958) (0)
II. The Causes oi Poverty (1964) (0)
TO THE MOUNTAINS AND WARSAW (1958) (0)
9. THE COMPLETED MODEL (1955) (0)
14. Employment and the informal sector: the economists lose control (1991) (0)
ル-ズベルトとケインズ(Challenge,January/February 1984) (1984) (0)
The Nature of Manias, Bubbles, and Crashes (2015) (0)
CHAPTER VI. Who Should Go To Graduate School (1956) (0)
Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Era and Luis Muñoz Marín (2009) (0)
Public Policy. A Yearbook of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Vol. V (1957) (0)
VI The Framework of Policy (1979) (0)
CHAPTER VII. The Faculty, the Dean, and the Student (1956) (0)
Review: Asia: Comrades at Odds (2001) (0)
7. Farmers, food and forests (1991) (0)
5. Technology in history: lies and promises (1991) (0)
Does It Pay (2010) (0)
12. THE WHOLESALING OF NON-FOOD PRODUCTS (1955) (0)
7. THE OPTIMAL RETAIL UNIT (1955) (0)
VII. Education and Economic Development (1964) (0)
AMERICAN COMMUNISTS; POLISH PRICES (1958) (0)
PARIS TO WARSAW (1958) (0)
VII The Industrial Escape (1979) (0)
Monthly Report No. 6/2010 (2010) (0)
... Y llegó "l'enfant terrible": John Kenneth Galbraith (1986) (0)
Notes on contributors (1956) (0)
Paul Samuelson on His 90th Birthday (2007) (0)
4. Planning and the Supply of Capital (2007) (0)
The Nature of Mass Poverty. (1979) (0)
WARSAW: FIRST IMPRESSIONS (1958) (0)
25. The Educational and Scientific Estate (2007) (0)
ECONOMIST AS SOCIAL CRITIC (2014) (0)
IV. Development as a Process (1964) (0)
Individual firm adjustments under OPA : a study in the dynamics of flexible pricing (1949) (0)
Revolutions in Our Time: Marx and Lenin: Lloyd George and Roosevelt; John Maynard Keynes (1986) (0)
Books Received (1962) (0)
Galbraith Sees the Future in China (1974) (0)
VIII. Development and the Industrial Corporation (1964) (0)
FNET - real-time FishNet evaluation tool (2006) (0)
The Affluent Society.@@@The Quest for Wealth. (1959) (0)
A Visit to the Country (1958) (0)
CHAPTER IX. The Future of Graduate Education (1956) (0)
The world economy in review: the fate of the revolutions (1988) (0)
8. Post-harvest technologies (1991) (0)
The past speaks to the present . Television for teaching . The language of economics (1962) (0)
STEEL AND THE CITY HALL (1958) (0)
4. The third sector and the Third World (1991) (0)
Paul Samuelson on His 90th Birthday (2007) (0)
John Kenneth Galbraith Guest Lecture (1992) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
10. The house that Jack built: construction materials (1991) (0)
6. A MODEL FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM (1955) (0)
17. Prices in the Planning System (Continued) (2007) (0)
Perspectives on conservation; essays on America's natural resources, by John Kenneth Galbraith [and others] Edited by Henry Jarrett. (1958) (0)
INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS: A NEGLECTED BREED (2007) (0)
27. The Planning System and the State II (2007) (0)
Points of view. (1967) (0)
32. Of Toil (2007) (0)
Results of exploratory fishing off the northeastern United States (2005) (0)
Military power: tension as a servant, arms control as an illusion (1987) (0)
10. NON-FOOD MARKETING: SETTING AND METHOD (1955) (0)
WARSAW TO BELGRADE (1958) (0)
VI. Development Planning and Practice (1964) (0)
II . Cooperative and Non-cooperative R & D in Duopoly with Spillovers-D ’ Aspremont and Jacquemin ( 1988 ) (2002) (0)
5 Price Control and the Disequilibrium System (1980) (0)
Nǣothāng phatthanā sētthakit : čhāk nangsư̄ rư̄ang Economic development in perspective (1964) (0)
Trends in modern American society (1962) (0)
Back Matter (1972) (0)
3 Price Control and Market imperfection (Cont’d) (1980) (0)
PART I. JOHN D. BLACK: A PORTRAIT (1959) (0)
WARSAW TO LUBLIN (1958) (0)
15. The Goals of the Planning System (2007) (0)
2. Poverty in the South (1991) (0)
I How Poverty Is Now Explained (1979) (0)
Introduction to the Fourth Edition: On the Perils and Rewards of Economic Dissonance (2007) (0)
14. MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE MARKETING SYSTEM: CONSUMER AND RETAIL EDUCATION (1955) (0)
1 The Prewar View of Price Control (1980) (0)
CHAPTER II. Fifty Years of the Ph.D. at Radcliffe (1956) (0)
The Strategy of Peaceful Competition (1962) (0)
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTES AND COLLEGES (1958) (0)
権力の解剖(Challenge,July/August 1983) (1984) (0)
Deep-Sea Fishes of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Results of the 2009 Henry Bigelow Expedition (2010) (0)
Glasgow Northern Medical Society (1906) (0)
6. The Technostructure (2007) (0)
The new industrial state, the bimodal view and reaction to 'movement conservatism' (2012) (0)
13. Perspectives on women and technology (1991) (0)
CHAPTER IV. Scholarly Achievement (1956) (0)
1. THE APPROACH TO MARKETING IN PUERTO RICO (1955) (0)
The new industrial state : methodology, developments and reappraisals (2012) (0)
Vertical Distribution of Deep-Pelagic (0-3000 M) Fishes Over the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone Region of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2011) (0)
IX. A Postscript on Population (1964) (0)
4. FOOD WHOLESALING (1955) (0)
American capitalism, avarice and affluence (2012) (0)
VIII On Migration (1979) (0)
CHAPTER I. The Background of Graduate Education (1956) (0)
7 The Problem of Limited Mobilization (1980) (0)
V What Is Now Explained (1979) (0)
John Maynard Keynes : 'new wisdom for a new age' (1984) (0)
The Managers Have Stolen Capitalism (2003) (0)
CHAPTER V. The Ph.D. and Marriage (1956) (0)
College Visiting Hours (2015) (0)
Friedman contra Galbraith (1982) (0)
24. The Planning System and the Union II The Ministerial Union (2007) (0)
8 Price Control and Limited Mobilization (1980) (0)
Tomorrow is Another Day: Forecasts and their Uses (2000) (0)
Obsolescence, Accommodation and Economic Policy (1978) (0)
I. The Purpose of Economic Development (1964) (0)
2 Price Control and Market imperfection (1980) (0)
Communication in the modern world : nine Granada Guildhall lectures, 1960-62 (1963) (0)
A GENERAL VIEW OF THE ECONOMY (1958) (0)
3. The best of the West: thinking big (1991) (0)

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