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John Kenneth Galbraith

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1316544&amp;oldid=2562057468" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Guggenheim Fellowship · dated 1955
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q129673672&amp;oldid=2234735189" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">History of Economics: The Past as the Present
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q21578&amp;oldid=2557645599" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Princeton University · from 1939 · to 1940
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1837650&amp;oldid=2558336980" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">United States Ambassador to India · from 1961 · to 1963
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q180865&amp;oldid=2564571826" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Toronto
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q104595279&amp;oldid=2437322067" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism · dated 1959

Wikidata describes John Kenneth Galbraith as Canadian-American economist and diplomat (1908–2006).

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