non liberal
John Kenneth Galbraith
1908–2006
Also known as: Galbraith, Professor Galbraith, J.K. Galbraith
How John Kenneth Galbraith is discussed in this archive
Referenced in 10 other works , including INDIAN PLANNING —PAST & FUTURE , Indian Planning at the Cross-Roads , and The Indian Libertarian .
In A PHILOSOPHY OF BUSINESS : Galbraith's New Industrial State is cited as the intellectual framework within which Kanoria welcomes the rise of professional management as a positive evolution in capitalism.
In INDIAN PLANNING —PAST & FUTURE : Das builds his statistical indictment of fifteen years of planning by applying Galbraith's consumption criterion to Indian data, using it as a benchmark to show that the average Indian's diet is only three-quarters of the index for poor countries excluding India.
In India Needs A Practical Economic Policy : Agarwala cites Galbraith (alongside Schumpeter, Fortune, Douglas McGregor, Douglas Jay, John P.
In Indian Planning at the Cross-Roads : Mehta dismisses further public-sector steel plants, petro-chemical complexes and the Cochin shipyard as Galbraithian 'symbolic modernism' — using Galbraith's coinage as the polemical label for showpiece investments.
In EFFICIENCY IN STATE ENTERPRISES IN INDIA : Galbraith is cited by Das as an authority on how government officials serving on corporate boards undermine enterprise autonomy, reinforcing Das's structural critique of the public sector's management problems.
Mentioned in (44)
Primary works (39)
- Making Indian Industry Globally Competitive · 1995
- Freedom First · 1984
- Freedom First · 1982
- Freedom First · 1979
- Freedom First · 1979
- Freedom First · 1978
- Freedom First · 1977
- Freedom First · 1976
- Freedom First · 1973
- A PHILOSOPHY OF BUSINESS · 1972
- "Echoing Galbraith's New Industrial State, he welcomes the rise of professional management" · Galbraith's analysis of managerial capitalism is drawn on to update the vision of private enterprise beyond the owner-entrepreneur model
- Freedom First · 1972
- Freedom First · 1972
- Freedom First · 1972
- The Companies Amendment Bill 1972 · 1972
- The Union Budget, 1972-73 · 1972
- …and 24 more
Excerpts (3)
- CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY LEADS TO RAPID ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- "Prof B.R. Shenoy counters Prof J.K. Galbraith's (Canadian-American economist) claim that planning is crucial to economic development." · Galbraith's pro-planning thesis is explicitly named as the target of Shenoy's counter-argument for consumer sovereignty
- Forty-Three Years of Independence
- "Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith remarked that while he had seen poverty in many countries of the world, he found one unusual attribute among the poor of India - ''There is richness in their poverty."" · Galbraith's observation supports Palkhivala's argument that India's human capital exceeds its economic statistics
- Making Indian Industry Globally Competitive
- "Ambassador J. K. Galbraith remarked that while he had seen poverty in many countries of the world, he found an uncommon attribute among the poor of lndia - a richness in their poverty." · Galbraith's observation is used as a testimony to Indian civilisational resilience