Part I. On Galbraith the person, events in his life, and their influences on his ideas --
A Quixote of the plains / Carlos Fuentes --
The ambassadors Galbraith : diplomatic lessons from my father / Peter Galbraith --
Galbraith as a neighbor / Daniel Patrick Moynihan --
A very personal birthday tribute / Eric Roll --
Galbraith and politics / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. --
The luckiest journey I ever made / Roy Jenkins --
Personal recollections / Katharine Graham --
Galbraith as a citizen of the university / Derek Bok --
Big man, little pictures / Stuart Cary Welch --
Part II. On Galbraith's economic, social, and political ideas --
The pendulum swings back / Will Hutton --
Galbraith in the new gilded age / Robert B. Reich --
Ken Galbraith as worldly philosopher / Robert Heilbroner --
Galbraith and French social democracy / Michel Rocard --
John Kenneth Galbraith and the myths of economics / Stephen A. Marglin --
Galbraith and the art of description / Amartya Sen --
Early influences on Galbraith's worldview and economics / Richard Parker --
Galbraith on Galbraith / Andrea Williams.
