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A Life in Our Times

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 461

In his memoirs, John Kenneth Galbraith recalls amusingly, even brilliantly, the important and low moments in his life, the men and women he met who were great, only interesting, entertaining or even absurd. Galbraith studied agriculture in his native Canada and agricultural economics at UC-Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, served briefly in FDR’s administration and went on to Harvard. In Cambridge, England, he discovered the new economics of John Maynard Keynes. During World War II in Washington, he held the key job of organizing and administering the system of wartime price controls. After the war, Galbraith directed the survey that interrogated former Nazi leaders to assess the effects of the air war on the German economy. He then worked for the State Department as administrator for economic affairs in the occupied countries and served as an editor of Fortune when the magazine employed some of the best writers around. Galbraith returned to Harvard in 1948 and wrote three of the most influential books on economics of his time, The Affluent Society, The New Industrial State and Economics and the Public Purpose. In these lively memoirs, the author relates all...

John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: James Ronald Stanfield

Número de Páginas: 189

This book provides an intellectual portrait of John Kenneth Galbraith, an institutional economist who examines the configuration of power by the clusters of mores that comprise institutions. Galbraith proposes an aggressive social democratic policy to achieve social and economic reform. This policy includes explicit recognition that the state must intervene to countervail the power of entrenched political economic interests and to provide generous support of the arts and letters to achieve the affirmation of humanity.

The Affluent Society

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 294

On the economics of abundance

Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 282

A collection of interviews that document the long career of the Canadian-born, influential economist and political philosopher

Money

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 390

Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects us all. He tells the fascinating story of money, the key factors that shaped its development, and the lessons that can be learned from its history. He describes the creation and evolution of monetary systems and explains how finance, credit, and banks work in the global economy. Galbraith also shows that, when it comes to money, nothing is truly new—least of all inflation and fraud.

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 745

These letters reveal the charm and brilliance of one of the great American intellectual liberals of the twentieth century.

The Galbraith Reader

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 520

Introduction à John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: Stéphanie Laguérodie , James K. Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 125

John Kenneth Galbraith a cherché à développer, tout au long du XXe siècle, une nouvelle voie pour l'économie, attentive aux institutions et à l'histoire. Formé pendant la Grande Dépression des années 1930, il critique d'emblée la théorie des marchés auto-régulateurs. Engagé dans la politique et la diplomatie de son pays, il embrasse les idées keynésiennes et en devient une figure emblématique en tant que conseiller du président J-F Kennedy notamment. Dans sa vision historique de l'économie, il fait d'abord l'analyse de l'apparition de la grande entreprise et de son pouvoir de marché. Galbraith critique l'influence exercée par ces grandes entreprises sur les finalités économiques de la société et s'interroge sur le sens d'une production et d'une consommation sans cesse croissantes. Privilégiant l'analyse de l'instabilité chronique des économies (récessions, chômage), Galbraith étudie enfin l'histoire des crises financières et la récurrence des bulles spéculatives. Il montre que la propension à prendre des risques inconsidérés, lorsque la régulation est insuffisante, mène périodiquement à des catastrophes.

A Tenured Professor

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 211

This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist “is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone” (The New York Times). John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century’s foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge—and knowledge of wealth—into a delightfully comical morality tale. 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 sets off a mass hysteria that causes investors to believe—despite the lessons of history and physics—that up is the only direction.

J.K. Galbraith: The new industrial state : methodology, developments, and reappraisals

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith , Stephen P. Dunn

One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith' s The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and economic tumult, familiar Galbraithian concerns' such as the power and dominance of overweening corporations, national and global poverty, and the careless destruction of the natural environment' once again loom large in the public consciousness.Galbraith' s contemporaries included such towering intellects as Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets, James Meade, Nicolas...

John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: Stephen P. Dunn

Número de Páginas: 0

A new title from Routledge's Major Works programme, this is a four-volume collection which brings together J. K. Galbraith's major theoretical economic contributions, together with critical responses to, and assessments of, his work.

Escuelas de pensamiento económico

Autor: Luis Perdices De Blas

Número de Páginas: 154

Escuelas de Pensamiento Económico no es un manual. Tampoco una guía. Ni un diccionario. Es un mapa aproximativo de los principales economistas, corrientes y escuelas de pensamiento desde la Antigua Grecia hasta los mas recientes premios Nóbel de Economía. Este libro es una herramienta útil para estudiantes de Economía y para todo aquel que de forma rápida y con rigor desee informarse de las ideas de unos economistas que cada vez son mas citados en los debates, tanto académicos como políticos. Realizado por Rogelio Fernández Delgado, Nieves San Emeterio Martin, Jose Luis Ramos Gorostiza y Estrella Trincado Aznar, bajo la coordinación de Luis Perdices de Blas. El libro esta estructurado en cuatro apartados demarcados por las fechas 1776, 1870 y 1936. El primer apartado abarca desde el esbozo de las primeras ideas sobre asuntos económicos en el pensamiento grecorromano hasta 1776, año de la publicación de la Investigación sobre la naturaleza y causa de las riquezas de las naciones de Adam Smith. El segundo apartado abarca desde Smith hasta el marginalismo, es decir, el siglo largo de predominio de la Escuela Clásica y sus críticos. El tercer apartado comprende el...

The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: Frank Scott Mcfadzean

Número de Páginas: 78

The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: Steven Pressman

Número de Páginas: 0

This book identifies and explains the major economic contributions of John Kenneth Galbraith, and places his work in the context of Post Keynesian and Institutionalist Economics. This book was published as a special issue of the Review of Political Economy.

Name-dropping

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 224

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.

"Does It Pay?"

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith , Jenny Phillips

Número de Páginas: 688

"'... and the Page man asked the question that enters into every business transaction in these intensely practical days.'--JKG."

The Essential Galbraith

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith , Andrea D. Williams

Número de Páginas: 316

An anthology of essays, articles, and excerpts from the renowned economist features selections from some of his most important works, including Afluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty, The New Industrial State, and The Great Crash, along with introduction to each essay from the author. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Annals of an Abiding Liberal

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 404

Contains primary source material.

The Great Crash, 1929

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 228

An examination of the stock market crash of 1929.

John Kenneth Galbraith and the Lower Economics

Autor: M.e. Sharpe

Número de Páginas: 86

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 128

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. With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major speculative episodes in our economy over the last three centuries. Exposing the ways in which normally sane people display reckless behavior in pursuit of profit, Galbraith asserts that our "notoriously short" financial memory is what creates the conditions for market collapse. By recognizing these signs and understanding what causes them we can guard against future recessions and have a better hold on our country's (and our own) financial destiny.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: John S. Gambs

Número de Páginas: 131

The Economics Of Innocent Fraud

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 81

John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today. Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and "conventional wisdom" -- a phrase he coined -- Galbraith tells, along with much else, how we have reached a point where the private sector has unprecedented control over the public sector. We have given ourselves over to self-serving belief and "contrived nonsense" or, more simply, fraud. This has come at the expense of the economy, effective government, and the business world. Particularly noted is the central power of the corporation and the shift in authority from shareholders and board members to management. In an intense exercise of fraud, the pretense of shareholder power is still maintained, even with the immediate participants. In fact, because of the scale and complexity of the modern corporation, decisive power must go to management. From management and its own inevitable...

John Kenneth Galbraith: American capitalism, avarice and affluence

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith , Stephen P. Dunn

One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith' s The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and economic tumult, familiar Galbraithian concerns' such as the power and dominance of overweening corporations, national and global poverty, and the careless destruction of the natural environment' once again loom large in the public consciousness.Galbraith' s contemporaries included such towering intellects as Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets, James Meade, Nicolas...

A Study Guide for John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society"

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 29

John Kenneth Galbraith

Autor: Stanfield James Ronald

The Age of Uncertainty

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 356

The distinguished diplomat and economist surveys the ideas and influence of economists and social philosophers, from Adam Smith's day to the present, contrasting the certainties in ninteenth-century economic thought with the uncertainty of today's.

Between Friends

Autor: Derek Curtis Bok

Número de Páginas: 200

Fifteen original essays by eminent personalities in public life, journalism, economics, and the arts, written to honor the ninetieth birthday of one of the world's most famous economists The wide array of contributors to this celebratory volume reflects the richly varied life of John Kenneth Galbraith -- professor of economics and writer, public servant and ambassador, eminent collector of Indian art, and head of a gifted family. Each contributor writes from his or her own highly individual perspective, whether informed by politics, journalism, economics, academe, art -- or just as a good friend. Some of the essays are anecdotal and humorous; others, more serious, show how Galbraith's ideas have influenced the contributors; yet others underscore the contribution his ideas have made to a better understanding of the world by us all. Galbraith is himself present through a collection of his memorable aphorisms compiled as the closing chapter to the book -- not least in his thoughts on writing and the publishing business. The contributors include Derek Bok, Carlos Fuentes, Peter Galbraith, Katharine Graham, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Robert Reich, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Economics and the Public Purpose

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 362

Criticism of the present economic system of the USA and proposals for comprehensive economic policy reform - covers the general economic theory of advanced economic development, consumption, and the concept of the household, the market system in relation to the service sector and the self employed, economic planning, price policy, inflation, income distribution, fiscal policy, the environment, technological change, the role of women, etc.

Economics in Perspective

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 344

Galbraith supplies a much-needed overview of the development of this ambitious and imperfect science. A lively account of the social, political, financial and industrial preoccupation of the Western world.

A Journey Through Economic Time

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 280

Whether he is analyzing the advent of Keynesian theory or the end of colonialism and the emergent Third World, Galbraith epitomizes the hindsight and the vision of one who has been an active and outspoken participant in the world's economic history. He writes with authority about the forging of Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society and examines the consequences of the "unintended history of the 1980s."

A Contemporary Guide to Economics, Peace, and Laughter

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 402

Cover title: Economics, peace, and laughter. Includes bibliographical references.

A History of Economics

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 344

Modern Competition and Business Policy

Autor: Henry Sturgis Dennison , John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 132

La sociedad opulenta

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 332

CONTENIDOS : El concepto de la sabiduría convencional - La economía y la tradición del desespero - La insegura tranquilidad - La actitud americana - El último marxista - Desigualdad - Seguridad económica - La posición suprema de la producción - Los imperativos de la demanda del consumidor - El efecto dependencia - Los intereses creados en la producción - Comparece el comprador - Inflación - La ilusión monetaria - La producción y la estabilidad de los precios - La teoría del equilibrio social - El equilibrio de la inversión - La transición - El divorcio de la producción y de la seguridad - El restablecimiento del equilibrio - La nueva situación de la pobreza - El trabajo, el ocio y la nueva clase - De la seguridad y la supervicencia.

Economics, Peace and Laughter

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 406

El crash de 1929

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 224

La crisis económica y financiera de 1929 dio origen a la gran depresión de los años treinta. John Kenneth Galbraith nos presenta aquí una historia y un análisis de esos hechos, y desentraña los procesos y mecanismos que, desde los años del boominmobiliario de Florida hasta el desastroso otoño de 1929, alimentaron la fiebre especulativa y la ilusión del dinero fácil. Escrito con la intención de contribuir a que la historia no se repita, El crash de 1929borra la visión pintoresca y esteriotipada de los años negros como una histérica partida de ruleta jugada por todo un pueblo, y la sustituye por la nueva imagen, más real y esclarecedora, de una enfermedad social padecida por una pequeña minoría, y alimentada por otra aún más reducida, que llegó a afectar a las formas de cultura y de vida de una sociedad moderna.

Breve historia de la euforia financiera

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 148

Recoge: El episodio de especulación; Los casos *clásicos: la tulipamanía; John Law y la Banque Royale; La tradición americana; 1929.

Historia de la economía

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 336

-En esta amena y polémica historia de la economía, el profesor Galbraith demuestra que, a lo largo de los siglos, la teoría y el pensamiento económico han sido moldeados por la realidad histórica- cub post.

The Voice of the Poor

Autor: John Kenneth Galbraith

Número de Páginas: 102

Based on a series of lectures given in India in the spring of 1982.