The Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith (19082006) is considered to be one of the most prolific economic and societal commentators of his time. Anne-Kristin von Dewitz examines his relationship to Germany from the 1940s onward and describes the influential impact he made as a public intellectual in the decades after the war against the backdrop of major societal and political upheavals.

Anne-Kristin von Dewitz, Berlin.