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John Kenneth Galbraith, an Uncommon card
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 160,000
Ranked #911 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s.
- As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
- He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Kenneth Galbraith article was read about 160,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get John Kenneth Galbraith
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Kenneth Galbraith (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Photographer is unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
