John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–
John Kenneth Galbraith was born on a farm in southeastern
Ontario, to a family of Scottish-Canadian farmers. He began his
undergraduate education at the Ontario Agricultural College in
Guelph in 1926, where he studied agricultural economics and
animal husbandry. He moved to California to study at the
University of California at Berkeley and completed a Ph.D. in
agricultural economics in 1934. Galbraith was hired by Harvard
University in 1934 and, aside from his government and
diplomatic postings, remained on staff there until his death.