“john kenneth galbraith”

Economics as practised is obsessively concerned with the future. Yet economic ideas are very much a product of their time and place. If we are to understand modern economics, we can do so only through an understanding of its past, including the powerful and vested interests that moulded the theories... More

The Great Crash examines the 'gold-rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the Shandoah Corporation all come together in Galbraith's study of concerted human greed and folly.... More

World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s. With wisdom and wit, he shows how the lessons of history can help us avoid financial calamity. "Entertaining ... More

Drawing on a lifetime of intimate access to many of the great public figures of our time, the legendary economist creates a rich and uniquely personal portrait of history during the last two-thirds of the 20th century--a history he helped to shape. NPR sponsorship.John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted e... More

This compact, tightly argued, and eloquent book is the quintessential John Kenneth Galbraith, the manifesto of the "abiding liberal." In defining the characteristics of a good society and creating the blueprint for a workable agenda, Galbraith allows for human weakness without compromising a humane ... More

Galbraith looks at today's economy and America's military actions in Iraq and contends that we observe the current state of the nation in a cloud of myth, believing that stockholders and owners run our corporate world.John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key p... More

Drawing on a lifetime of access to many great public figures, the famous economist offers a clear-eyed, unsparing, and amusing "look at prominent people . . . [he] has known, from FDR on" (Larry King, "USA Today") and offers a rich and uniquely personal history of the century he helped to shape. A "... More

John Kenneth Galbraith's third novel, A Tenured Professor, is at once an intriguing tale of morality and a comic delight. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model, which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden agendas. Seeking proof that human... More