Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: whittle, euphoria, financial, history, short
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1994-07-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140238565
ISBN-13: 9780140238563

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 in its instructiveness."--The Boston Globe.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Keywords: agenda, humane, society
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1996-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0395713285
ISBN-13: 9780395713280

Galbraith also recognizes human weakness, differences in ability and motivation, and the formidable obstacles facing those who challenge the status quo. No one else explains the interplay of economic and political forces with Galbraith’s exquisite clarity.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: galbraith, essential
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0618119639
ISBN-13: 9780618119639

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time - from THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY, the groundbreaking book in which he conined the tern "conventional wisdom," to THE GREAT CRASH, an unsurpassed account of the events that triggered America’s worst economic crisis. Galbraith"s new introductions place the works in their historical moment and make clear their enduring relevance for the new century. THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH will delight old admirers and introduce one of our most beloved writer

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: crash
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-04-30
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0395859999
ISBN-13: 9780395859995

Rampant speculation. Record trading volumes. Assets bought not because of their value but because the buyer believes he can sell them for more in a day or two, or an hour or two. Welcome to the late 1920s. There are obvious and absolute parallels to the great bull market of the late 1990s, writes Galbraith in a new introduction dated 1997. Of course, Galbraith notes, every financial bubble since 1929 has been compared to the Great Crash, which is why this book has never been out of print since it became a bestseller in 1955. Galbraith writes with great wit and erudition about the perilous acti

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T)
Keywords: whence, money
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-12-01
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0735100705
ISBN-13: 9780735100701

A classic look at the story of money is updated for the 1990s by the eminent economist, offering an in-depth, often hilarious lesson in human behavior and a layman’s course in the theory and practice of economics. Reprint.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: poverty, mass, nature
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2001-05-14
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1583484191
ISBN-13: 9781583484197

The Galbraith incisibeness, clarity, and wit are here brought to bear on the central aspects of the most important economic and social probelms of our time. The Nature of Mass Poverty proceeds from the author’s conviction that most explanations of conditions in poor countries do not explain. They reflect, instead, the experience of the rich countries. Or they create cause out of cure. Capital and technical expertise being available from the rich countries, shortage of these becomes the cause of povery in the poor.

Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: society, affluent
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0395925002
ISBN-13: 9780395925003

Conventional wisdom has it that John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society spawned the neoliberalism we see in Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and other world leaders. The economist’s prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958. Galbraith saw the widening gap between the richest and the poorest as an emergent threat to economic stability, and proposed significant investment in parks, transportation, education, and other public amenities--what we now call infrastructure--to ameliorate the