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John Kenneth Galbraith Forum and Award

The John Kenneth Galbraith Forum and Award is awarded annually by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). This prestigious honor goes to a distinguished professional for continuing Galbraith's tradition of outstanding research and major social contributions. The Galbraith Award winner is also a plenary speaker at the AAEA Annual Meeting.

John K. Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith was born October 15, 1908. He received his Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he taught at Berkeley and the University of California, Davis. Galbraith then moved to the East Coast and had a long and distinguished career teaching economics at Harvard and Princeton Universities. He has played an important public service and policy role. During World War II Galbraith administered price controls for the United States. He was an adviser to multiple U.S. Presidents and served as U.S. Ambassador to India under President John F. Kennedy. Galbraith also served as the editor of Fortune Magazine from 1943-1948, and a wrote several books including American Capitalism (1951) and The Affluent Society (1958). He holds the Medal of Freedom and the Order of Canada.

History of the Forum and Award

The Forum was created in 2003 as an honor to Galbraith. Agricultural and applied economists from around the world gathered at the 2003 AAEA annual meeting in Montreal, Canada, to witness the birth of the John Kenneth Galbraith Forum and Award. The Galbraith Fund was established within the AAEA Trust by private donors. The Galbraith Forum and Award Committee selects the recipient of the Award each year. The committee has six members appointed to a three-year rotating term, with two new members each year. Five Galbraith Award Honorees are Nobel Laureates.

Past recipients * indicates Nobel Laureate

2003	Gordon Rausser, University California, Berkeley James Galbraith, University of Texas Derek Bok, Harvard University 2004	Jospeh E. Stiglitz*, University of Chicago 2005	Michael E. Porter, Harvard University 2006	Kenneth Arrow*, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy 2007	Sir Partha Dasgupta, St. John’s College, Cambridge 2008	Elinor Ostrom*, Indiana University 2009	Angus Deaton*, Princeton University 2010	John A. List, University of Chicago 2011	Martin Ravallion, World Bank 2012	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013	Martin Weitzman, Harvard University 2014	Jean Tirole*, Toulouse School of Economics 2015	Anne Case, Princeton University 2016	Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley