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Este professor de Economia, que lecionou nas duas melhores universidades americanas (Princeton e Harvard), e foi conselheiro de Roosevelt, Kennedy e Clinton, nasceu no Canadá em 1908 e foi dos primeiros economistas a perceber o poder da televisão ao participar em vários programas para a BBC intitulados a ‘A Idade da Incerteza’( The Age of Uncertainty 1977). Escreveu mais de 30 obras, entre as quais se destaca ‘A sociedade da abundância’ (The Affluent Society, 1958.), considerado um clássico da economia. Veja abaixo e acesse sua bibliografia.

A sua preocupação com a exclusão social e o papel que o Estado poderia desempenhar no combate a esses fenómenos, trouxeram-lhe grandes dissabores durante os anos 80, altura em que Margaret Thatcher e Ronald Reagan estavam no poder.

É dele a expressão “é tudo uma questão de bom senso”, utilizada para explicar decisões, aparentemente simples, mas com grande efeito prático.

Modern Competition and Business Policy, 1938.
A Theory of Price Control, 1952.
American Capitalism: The concept of countervailing power, 1952.
The Great Crash, 1929, 1954.
Economics and the Art of Controversy, 1955.
The Affluent Society, 1958.
Perspectives on conservation, 1958. (Editor)
The Liberal Hour, 1960
Economic Development in Perspective, 1962.
The Scotch, 1963
Economic Development, 1964.
The New Industrial State, 1967.
Beginner's Guide to American Studies, 1967.
How to get out of Vietnam, 1967.
The Triumph (a novel), 1968.
Ambassador's Journal, 1969.
How to control the military, 1969.
Indian Painting (with Mohinder Singh Randhawa), 1969.
Who needs democrats, and what it takes to be needed, 1970.
American Left and Some British Comparisons, 1971.
Economics, Peace and Laughter, 1972.
Power and the Useful Economist, 1973, AER
Economics and the Public Purpose, 1973
A China Passage, 1973.
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces India, 1974. (Editor)
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went, 1975.
Socialism in rich countries and poor, 1975.
The Economic effects of the Federal public works expenditures, 1933-38, (with G. Johnson) 1975.
The Age of Uncertainty (also a BBC 13 part television series), 1977.

The Galbraith Reader, 1977.
Annals of an Abiding Liberal, 1979.
The Nature of Mass Poverty, 1979.
Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics, 1979.
A Life in Our Times, 1981.
The Voice of the Poor, 1983.
The Anatomy of Power, 1983.
Essays from the Poor to the Rich, 1983.
Reaganomics: Meaning, Means and Ends, (with Paul McCracken)1983.
A View from the Stands, 1986.
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History, 1987.
Capitalism, Communism and Coexistence (with Stanislav Menshikov), 1988.
Unconventional Wisdom: Essays on Economics in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1989. (Editor)
A Tenured Professor, 1990.
A History of Economics: The Past as the Present, 1991.
The Culture of Contentment, 1992.
Recollections of the New Deal: When People Mattered, 1992. (Editor)
A Journey Through Economic Time, 1994.
The World Economy Since the Wars: A Personal View, 1994.
A Short History of Financial Euphoria, 1994.
The Good Society: the humane agenda, 1996.
Letters to Kennedy, 1998.
The socially concerned today, 1998.
Name-Dropping: From F.D.R. On, 1999.
The Essential Galbraith, 2001.
The Economics of Innocent Fraud, 2004.
John Kenneth Galbraith and the future of economics, 2005.