Background
Galbraith, John Kenneth was born on October 15, 1908 in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada. Son of William Archibald and Catherine (Kendall) Galbraith.
("The only answer to the wage-price spiral is the one that...)
"The only answer to the wage-price spiral is the one that has for so long been dismissed as so disreputable to have wage and price controls..." Thus wrote John Kenneth Galbraith in 1970, when Richard Nixon treated the word "control" as if it were obscene. Subsequent changes could not have been surprising to the author. Already he had heard the President paraphrase The Affluent Society in his 1970 State of the Union Message, and Galbraith's once iconoclastic views on Vietnam have long since become part of the rhetoric of both political parties. For Galbraith has the infuriating habit of being right as you can learn for your pleasure and profit in ECONOMICS PEACE AND LAUGHTER.
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The Atlantic said it best: "A trenchant and timely re-examination of the most spectacular boom-and-bust period in American history. Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is... Mr. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nations oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community."
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Aiming at the large number of poor people in Third World countries, the author John Kenneth Galbraith discusses the real causes of poverty in "The Nature of Mass Poverty". Usually, people think they experience poverty because of race, climate (latitude), the amount of resources, colonial history and so on. Galbraith believes that these popular explanations for the poverty are just the defense of some actions, but not the real reasons. The experience of rich countries, are unable to explain correctly the situation of poor countries. On the basis of this basic viewpoint, then move further, we can know that the lack of capital and technical expertis leads to poverty in those poor nations. Galbraith¡¯s ideas have great reference and guidance on the issue of poverty in developing countries.
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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 culture, and recognizes barriers that hinder but do not defeat a responsible, stable, and hopeful future.
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The Anatomy of Power is a 1983 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. It sought to classify three types of power: compensatory power in which submission is bought, condign power in which submission is won by making the alternative sufficiently painful, and conditioned power in which submission is gained by persuasion. It further divided power by source: power either stems from personality or leadership, property or wealth, or organisation. The book goes on to detail a brief history of the use of power, noting the broad arc of history in moving away from condign and towards compensatory and then conditioned power, and from personality and property towards organisation. Finally, it details what Galbraith views as the main sources of power in the modern world: government, the military, religion and the press. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith (1908 - 2006), OC was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s and he filled the role of public intellectual from the 1950s to the 1970s on matters of economics. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years. Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; he served as United States Ambassador to India under Kennedy.
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This book traces the course of America's current sense of contentment, stemming from the economic comfort achieved by the fortunate, politically dominant community during the Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s. Galbraith focuses on the results of this stasis, including short-term thinking and investment, government as a burden, and corporate sclerosis. The author also explores international issues, such as the parallels between the denial of trouble in Eastern Europe and problems unrecognized in America. This book is a groundbreaking assessment of the future of America.
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(First published in 2004, John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Ec...)
First published in 2004, John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Economics of Innocent Fraud" is an extraordinarily prescient analysis of capitalism that has even greater power and relevance for our times. In this vigorous polemic John Kenneth Galbraith, a lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power, distils years of expertise to deliver a scathing attack on the modern financial system. Sounding the alarm on the gap between 'conventional wisdom' - a phrase he coined - and reality, Galbraith warns that the private sector and the public realm are becoming increasingly intertwined. He shows how politics and the media have colluded in the myth of a benign market system, accepting obscene pay gaps and unrestrained self-enrichment - ultimately meaning that we have come to condone legal, legitimate, 'innocent' fraud. "An almost indecently pleasurable read". ("The Times"). "I agree with Galbraith. The bonus culture is skim, bribery, corporate theft". (Simon Jenkins, "Guardian"). "The most stylish writer on economics of the past half-century ...it will please those who appreciate Galbraith's dry wit and laconic iconoclasm". ("Financial Times"). "America's great liberal economist, the intellectual heir to John Maynard Keynes". ("Economist"). John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a Canadian-American economist. A Keynesian and an institutionalist, Galbraith was a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. Galbraith was the author of 30 books, including "The Economics of Innocent Fraud", "The Great Crash: 1929", and "A History of Economics". He was awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris and Moscow University.
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(Everybody talks about price control, but not many of us k...)
Everybody talks about price control, but not many of us know what to expect of it, and when and how it should be used. In nontechnical language, Galbraith supplies the underlying economic ideas which will help readers understand how particular controls affect the general operation of the economy. He shows why price controls during World War II worked as well as they did and he analyzes the criteria for effective price control both under a fully mobilized economy and under limited mobilization.
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Galbraith gives students and professional economists alike the history behind current economic concepts. He outlines the ethical judgments that remain from the household economies of the Greeks to modern capitalism.
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What is surprising about these essays is not the insight and grace with which they are written--we have come to expect that--but the fact that nobody has expressed matters in quite this way before. John Kenneth Galbraith writes about what advice the poor nations (as, avoiding euphemism, he calls them) ought to offer to the more fortunate countries...In this little book there are essential lessons to ponder--for the governments of the rich countries, for those of the poor lands, and for the concerned citizens of both.
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Combines a history of money and monetary institutions, with an analysis of money's changing role in the sum total of economic analysis and policy.
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( With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth ...)
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consumer "need" where none previously existed. Multinational corporations are the continuation of this power system on an international level. The goal of these companies is not the betterment of society, but immortality through an uninterrupted stream of earnings. First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues to resonate today.
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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 folly has no limit when motivated by greed, Martin initiates mass hysteria that causes investors to assume that up is the only direction. Hailed as "Galbraith's wisest and wittiest" novel (New York Times), A Tenured Professor is an impudently satirical tale.
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A renowned economist presents an accessible, far-reaching history of the century's economics from World War I and the Russian Revolution, through the Depression and Keynesian theory, to colonialism's collapse and the rise of the Third World.
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In the autumn of 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith, in company with his two predecessor presidents of the American Economic Association, was invited to visit China. The purpose: a privileged view of the Chinese economy. The results are in this book. But Mr Galbraith had another idea; it was to go beyond economics and tell of everything a visitor to the Middle Kingdom does, sees, and thinks from the moment he leaves home until he is back again. And here it all is . . .
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Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with an eloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and won a readership none of his fellow economists could match. This Library of America volume, the first devoted to economics, gathers four of his key early works, the books that established him as one of the leading public intellectuals of the last century. In American Capitalism, Galbraith exposes with great panache the myth of American free-market competition. The idea that an impersonal market sets prices and wages, and maintains balance between supply and demand, remained so vital in American economic thought, Galbraith argued, because oligopolistic American businessmen never acknowledged their collective power. Also overlooked was the way that groups such as unions and regulatory agencies react to large oligopolies by exerting countervailing power—a concept that was the book’s lasting contribution. The Great Crash, 1929 offers a gripping account of the most legendary (and thus misunderstood) financial collapse in American history, as well as an inquiry into why it led to sustained depression. Galbraith posits five reasons: unusually high income inequality; a bad, overleveraged corporate structure; an unsound banking system; unbalanced foreign trade; and, finally, “the poor state of economic intelligence.” His account is a trenchant analysis of the 1929 crisis and a cautionary tale of ignorance and hubris among stock-market players; not surprisingly, the book was again a bestseller in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. In The Affluent Society, the book that introduced the phrase “the conventional wisdom” into the American lexicon, Galbraith takes on a shibboleth of free-market conservatives and Keynesian liberals alike: the paramount importance of production. For Galbraith, the American mania for production continued even in an era of unprecedented affluence, when the basic needs of all but an impoverished minority had easily been met. Thus the creation of new and spurious needs through advertising—leading to skyrocketing consumer debt, and eventually a private sector that is glutted at the expense of a starved public sector. The New Industrial State stands as the most developed exposition of Galbraith’s major themes. Examining the giant postwar corporations, Galbraith argued that the “technostructure” necessary for such vast organizations—comprising specialists in operations, marketing, and R&D—is primarily concerned with reducing risk, not with maximizing profits; it perpetuates stability through “the planning system.” The book concludes with a prescient analysis of the “educational and scientific estate,” which prefigures the “information economy” that has emerged since the book was published.
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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 writers to a new generation of readers. It is also an indispensable resource for scholars and students of economics, history, and politics, offering unparalleled access to the seminal writings of an extraordinary thinker.
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Very good hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear.
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The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds."—The Atlantic.
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(In this 1973 interview with Heywood Hale Broun Jr., noted...)
In this 1973 interview with Heywood Hale Broun Jr., noted writer and economist John Kenneth Galbraith discusses the problems of our modern consumer economy and the need to realign a system, dominated by technological conglomerates, toward the public interest and a more equitable way of life. Reissued on audio CD in 2007. 55 min. Product No. C40108D.
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1949-1975 Harvard University now Emeritus Professor Paul M Warburg Professor of Economics
Galbraith, John Kenneth was born on October 15, 1908 in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada. Son of William Archibald and Catherine (Kendall) Galbraith.
Bachelor of Science, University Guelph, 1931. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Guelph. Master of Science, University California, 1933.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, 1934. Postgraduate, Cambridge University, England, 1937—1938. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Bard College.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University California. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Miami University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Massachusetts.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Mysore, Brandeis University, University Toronto, University Saskatchewan, University Michigan. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Durham, Rhode Island College, Boston College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Albion College, Tufts University, Adelphi Suffolk College, Michigan State University, Louvain University.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Oxford University, University Paris, Carleton College, University Vermont, Queens University, Moscow State University. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, Smith College London School Economics, others.
Tutor, Harvard University, 1934-1939. Social Science Research Fellow, Cambridge University, 1937. Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University, 1939.
Assistant Administrator, Office of Price Administration, 1941. Deputy Administrator, 1942-1943. Director State Department Office of Economic Security Policy, 1945.
Member Board of Editors, Fortune Magazine, 1943-1948. United States Ambassador to India, 1961-1963 (on leave from Professorship). Reith Lecturer, 1966.
Vis. Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1970-1971 (Honorary Fellow, 1987). Television series, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977. Chairman, Americans for Democratic Action, 1967-1969.
President: American Economics Association, 1972; American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1984 (Member, since 1982). Doctor of Law Bard, 1958; Miami University, 1959.
University of Toronto, 1961. Brandeis University, 1963. University of Mass, 1963;University of Saskatchewan, 1965.
Rhode Island College, 1966. Boston College, 1967; Hobart and William Smith Colls, 1967. University of Paris, 1975.
And others. President’s Certificate of Merit. Medal of Freedom.
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(Combines a history of money and monetary institutions, wi...)
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(Everybody talks about price control, but not many of us k...)
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Director United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1945, Office of Economic Security Policy, State Department, 1946. Fellow: American Academy Arts and Letters (president 1984-1987). Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Americans for Democratic Action (chairman 1967-1968), American Agricultural Economic Association, American Economic Association (president 1972), Saturday, Century.
Married Catherine Atwater, September 17, 1937. Children: Alan, Peter, James.