Galbraith

[ US /ˈɡæɫˌbɹeɪθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908)
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How To Use Galbraith In A Sentence

  • S Office of Price Administration . Unlike almost all other economists, Galbraith had defended permanent price controls.
  • Such a survey would show, I think, that Professor Galbraith is very sensitive to the moods of the moment, moving with but little resistance and even less acknowledgment from a kind of Panglossian optimism in American Capitalism (and the same year's famous New York Times Magazine article 'We Can Prosper Without War Orders'), through increasing skepticism in the middle books (The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State), to something which now displays what is at times ill-concealed alarm. Galbraith's Utopia
  • He had heard about Humphrey through Americans for Democratic Action, a progressive, anti-Communist branch of the party that Hubert had cofounded with Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Arthur Schlesinger, and he encouraged Humphrey to rebuild the state party. The Good Fight
  • For the average American, it was a period when a new kind of middle-class life became possible. It was the heyday of what John Kenneth Galbraith called the "new industrial state.
  • Professor Galbraith upbraided me yesterday for my suggestion that our sojourns to Geneva be shortened to six weeks.
  • Cal Galbraith crossed over with great strides, angrily, and spoke to Madeline in polyglot Chinook. The Wife of a King
  • Galbraith put the plug in the sink, squeezed some detergent over the dishes lying there, and turned on the water. SLEEP WHILE I SING
  • He (or she) is a passive and functionless figure, remarkable only on his capacity to share, without effort or even without appreciable risk, in the gains from the growth by which the technostructure measures its success," according to Galbraith. The Non-Economist's Economist
  • Reports say Ambassador Galbraith has sided with the Canadian chairman of the Electoral Complaints Commission, Grant Kippen, to take a hard line and toss out all tainted ballots.
  • Galbraith was confused by the blank help and asked where the man he was talking to was based.
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