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This conference aims to explore and analyse Galbraith’s contribution from the perspective of the historian. The focus will not be so much on an assessment of Galbraith as an economist but on questions about his role in influencing the development of economics over time, about why his perspective generated (and still generates) controversy, about the philosophies and traditions it draws upon, about his part in the Keynesian revolution and the development of a post-Keynesian analysis, about the value of his work in assisting our understanding of advanced capitalist societies in the second half of the twentieth century, about his relationship with Liberalism and the Left in the USA and the UK. How valid was Galbraith’s analysis of post-war society, and of the connections between the modern corporation and the ‘military-industrial complex’ identified, respectively, in The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State, and Economics and the Public Purpose?