Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with author Richard Parker about his new biography of America’s best-known and most widely published economist John Kenneth Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, ...

John Kenneth Galbraith died at the age of 97, shortly after 9:00 on Saturday night. America has lost a great and iconoclastic economist, thinker, writer and political figure. As William Greider wrote ...

John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics ...

John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 820 pages, $35. I’ve heard just about enough from the founding fathers. Over the last ...

At a memorial service for John Kenneth Galbraith at Harvard University’s Memorial Church, economist and biographer Richard Parker eulogized an extraordinary man. John Kenneth Galbraith loved words.

Richard Parker is a senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he is a professor of public policy. He is also the author of "John Kenneth ...

BOSTON In the 1950s, John Kenneth Galbraith warned that corporations were becoming too powerful. In the 1960s he warned President Kennedy about the dangers of unilateral military action abroad. He ...

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