존 케네스 갤브레이스

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존 케네스 갤브레이스(John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908년 10월 15일 ~ 2006년 4월 29일)는 캐나다에서 태어난 미국의 경제학자 겸 외교관이자 대학 교수이다.

John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.