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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.

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Primary works (39)

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

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