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 all with the ways that power was exercised in society. Parker is the author of John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, which we will publish in paperback this fall.
More about the book is available on a Galbraith Web site.