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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was born in 1908 in Ontario, Canada. He earned a PhD at the University of California in 1934 and later took a fellowship at Cambridge, where he first encountered Keynesian economics. At different points in his life he taught at both Harvard and Princeton, and wrote more than forty books on an array of economic topics. During World War II he served as deputy head of the Office of Price Administration, charged with preventing inflation from crippling the war efforts, and...See more

Personality Profile For John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

The following is a personality profile of John Kenneth Galbraith based on his work.

John Kenneth Galbraith is shrewd and skeptical.

He is imaginative, he has a wild imagination. He is philosophical as well: he is open to and intrigued by new ideas and loves to explore them. But, John Kenneth Galbraith is also unstructured: he does not make a lot of time for organization in his daily life.

More than most people, his choices are driven by a desire for well-being.

He is also relatively unconcerned with tradition: he cares more about making his own path than following what others have done. Considers helping others to guide a large part of what he does: he thinks it is important to take care of the people around him.

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