In this 5th revised edition on the economics of abundance, Galbraith lays bare the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. He challenges why we worship work and productivity when so much of what we produce is superfluous...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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John Kenneth Galbraith;John Galbraith
ISBN:9781560006749
In this fortieth anniversary edition of a classic text on political economy, John Kenneth Galbraith reasserts the validity of its core thesis: the best and established answer to economic power is the building of countervailing power...more details Format:Paperback Pages:222
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John Galbraith Simmons
ISBN:9780618152766
Doctors and Discoveries tells the story of Western medicine through the lives of its most influential figures, chosen for their relevance to contemporary medicine...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:448
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John Galbraith Simmons;Milagros Ed Simmons
ISBN:9780806521398
Who are the great scientists throughout the ages and why? From Archimedes to Newton to Einstein to Hawking, The Scientific 100 provides the fascinating answers. In vivid biographical sketches...more details Format:Paperback Pages:528
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780140238563
World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780618154555
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Robert J Schwartz;John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9781590560327
"I have titled these memoirs Can You Make a Difference?" writes economist and social activist Robert Schwartz, "because trying to make a difference is pretty much what most of my life has been about...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780986641008
"'... and the Page man asked the question that enters into every business transaction in these intensely practical days.'--JKG."...more details Format:Paperback Pages:712
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Galbraith John Kenneth
ISBN:9780141045139
'An almost indecently pleasurable read' The Times
In this vigorous polemic John Kenneth Galbraith, a lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:80
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Galbraith John Kenneth
ISBN:9780713998207
Galbraiths analysis purports to show that the gulf between truth and illusion has never been wider. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the economic and political future of the world....more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
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...more details
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780613916769
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...more details
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Galbraith John Kenneth
ISBN:9780140136098
This work examines the 'gold-rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Galbraith John Kenneth
ISBN:9780141038254
No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the 'gold rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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John Kenneth Galbraith;Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield James RonaldStanfield
ISBN:9781578066100
Biography -- History -- Political Science -- Economics -->
For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. His articulate and controversial best-selling books-including "The Affluent Society...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:247
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John Kenneth Galbraith;James Goodman
ISBN:9780674528376
A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:168
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John S Galbraith
ISBN:9780521101714
In the 1870s Britain dominated the coast of east Africa by informal influence exerted from Zanzibar through the renowned consul-general, Sir John Kirk...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780395822883
John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted economist, joined Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal in 1934 and served that administration during World War II in the crucial role of deputy head of the Office of Price Administration in charge of price control...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:194
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780618154531
"Names? You want names? No one knows better ones than John Kenneth Galbraith" (San Diego Union-Tribune). With the dazzling insight, humor, and literary skill that mark Galbraith as one of the most distinguished writers of our time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Galbraith John
ISBN:9781113253866
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:20
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780395925003
Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780141023014
A lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power and the most widely read economist of the twentieth century, the admired Harvard professor J. K...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780618013241
John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:62
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John Kenneth Galbraith;Andrea D Williams
ISBN: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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Anna Mary Galbraith;John H Musser
ISBN:9780548183250
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:198
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Anna Mary Galbraith;John H Musser
ISBN:9781430485223
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780395859988
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780547248165
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value...more details Format:Paperback Pages:206
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780395859995
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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John Kenneth Galbraith;James K Galbraith
ISBN:9780691131412
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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:518
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John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN:9780674942967
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96