John Kenneth Garbraith

John Kenneth Garbraith (1908-2006), also Ken Galbraith in short, was a Canadian-US economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. He was professor of economics in Harvard University. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with his death as his greatest source of anxiety.

- The Age of Uncertainty

• Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

- Ambassador's Journal

• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

- The Affluent Society

Howell Maurice Forgy