Today, Salon.com features Richard Parker’s substantive appreciation of the late John Kenneth Galbraith. Parker emphasizes that Galbraith was a political economist—a social scientist concerned above
The name of Leo Strauss is everywhere, from national newspapers and magazines to innumerable political blogs. Most of these media have perpetuated the idea that
Amartya Sen said the influence of John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Affluent Society is so pervasive as to be taken for granted: “It’s like reading