John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M.
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard
University and a past president of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of
thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The
Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He
has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the
University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he
was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In
2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.