Abstract
John Kenneth Galbraith is perhaps Canada's most well-known intellectual export, known for both his regular puncturing of established orthodox economic wisdom and the wit with which his attacks are delivered.
The publication of his books The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, and Economics and the Public Purpose virtually established a Galbraithian school of thought in the United States. Many of Galbraith's ideas on the workings of the corporate sector were incorporated into the post-Keynesian theory that was emerging on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1960s and the 1970s.