John Kenneth Galbraith
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to India; among his major works: The Affluent Society (1958), The New Industrial State (1967), Economics & The Public Purpose (1973) and The Good Society (1996). His work in progress is The Economics of Innocent Fraud. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1946 and then again in 2000.