John Kenneth Galbraith

1908 - Born to Canadians of Scottish descent on the 15th of October.

1931 - Graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College with a B.Sc degree.

1933 - Received an M.Sc and Ph.D in Agricultural Economics.

1934 - University of California, Berkeley.

- He also became a tutor at Harvard University.

1937 - He became a United States citizen, but he was honoured by his native country to his life's end and frequently adverted to his Canadian origins

1934-1939 - He taught intermittently at Harvard.

         - He taught at Princeton University.

1943-1948 - He served as editor of Fortune magazine.

1949 - He was appointed professor of economics at Harvard.

1961-1963 - He was appointed as U.S. ambassador to India.

1972 - He served as president of the American Economic Association.

         - President of American Economic Association.

1984-1987 - President of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1997 - He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

2000 - He was awarded his second U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

2006 - On the 29th of April, he died at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts of natural causes, after a two-week stay in the hospital.

• "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
• "Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.'"
• "Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks."
• "The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself."
• "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."