Galbraith, John Kenneth

Galbraith, John Kenneth. 1975. Money Whence It Came, Where It Went. Boston Houghton Mifflin. 

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 42, 151 engineers reading of, 46-47, 76, 143-44, 168, 208n76... 

Essays in honour of John Kenneth Galbraith Edited by Michael Keaney... 

Technology s critics pointed not only to the problems inherent in technical systems, but also to the need for technical experts to develop philosophical introspection. The liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for example, called for responsible professionals to reorient the technostructure, as they were the only ones with expertise to under-... 

In 1961 Jerome Wiesner and John Kenneth Galbraith asked President John F. Kennedy to create a development commission to stimulate civilian industry. The Department of Commerce was already charged with this mission, but it was a relatively weak agency with few R D functions. To spearhead new government-industry partnerships in the model of postwar military sucesses, Wiesner chose Hollomon to serve as Commerce s assistant secretary of science and technology. ... 

Says Beers My father started carrying these thick books with him to and from work. He would read at Lockheed on his lunch hour and in the living room after dinner. He became a student of John Kenneth Galbraith s critique of corporate life as the misplaced pursuit of money over life s otheg more fulfilling rewards. He soaked up Eric Hoffer s idea that mass movements are the products... 

John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1967), 282-95, 370-78. 

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