This recognized economist was borned in October 15, 1908 at Ontario, Canada. He comes from a Scottish farming community on the north shore of Lake Erie. His father was a teacher at first who later became a farmer. His father was very interested in politics and he was somehow related to it in his community. He used to give speeches concerned on his liberal way of thinking. John remembers how much his dad advised him of how he has to bring changes to the world. Nowadays, he is married to Catherine Atwater and they have three sons. The couple lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts but go to Newfane, Vermont during the summer.
After finishing high school, Galbraith was admitted into the College of Agriculture at Guelph, Ontario and he got his bachelor's degree in 1931. There, he earned a scholarship for the opportunity to study outside Canada for his Ph. D. at the University of California in Berkeley. He ended up liking California very much. During his third year of studies at Berkeley, he was hired for a job as teacher of economics at the University of California.
In 1934, he got his doctorate in Agricultural Economics. He went to the University of Cambridge at England in 1936. There he met famous people like some members of the Ke
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