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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)

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John Kenneth Galbraith is a Canadian-born American economist who is perhaps the most widely read economist in the world. He taught at Harvard from 1934-1939 and then again from 1949-1975. An adviser to President John F. Kennedy, he served from 1961 to 1963 as U.S. ambassador to India. His style and vis mere wit in writing and his frequent media appearances have contributed greatly to his fame as an economist. Galbraith believes that it is not sufficient for government to manage the level of effective demand; government must manage the market itself. Galbraith stated in American Capitalism (1952) that the market is far from competitive, and governments and labor unions must serve as "countervailing power." He believes that ultimately "producer sovereignty" takes the place of consumer sovereignty and the producer - not the consumer - becomes ruler of the marketplace. (Bowker Author Biography) John Kenneth Galbraith, born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Economic Association. He is the author of thirty-one books spanning five decades. He has received honorary degrees from, among others, Harvard University, Oxford University, the University of Paris, the University of Toronto, and Moscow State University. He is Commandeur de la Legion d'Honneur in France, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) vis mindre

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Det store krak 1929 (1954) 1,744 eksemplarer
Det rige samfund (1958) 1,712 eksemplarer
Det nye industrisamfund (1967) 772 eksemplarer
Penge - deres fortid og fremtid (1975) 454 eksemplarer
The Age of Uncertainty (1977) 435 eksemplarer
The Culture of Contentment (1992) 321 eksemplarer
Et liv i vor tid (1981) 317 eksemplarer
Økonomi og samfundets tarv (1973) 272 eksemplarer
The Good Society: The Humane Agenda (1996) 259 eksemplarer
A Tenured Professor (1990) 216 eksemplarer
Ambassador’s Journal (1969) 202 eksemplarer
The Anatomy of Power (1901) 198 eksemplarer
Almost Everyone's Guide to Economics (1978) 191 eksemplarer
The Triumph (1968) 151 eksemplarer
Name-Dropping: From FDR On (1999) 139 eksemplarer
The Liberal Hour (1960) 132 eksemplarer
Economics, Peace and Laughter (1971) 129 eksemplarer
The Non-potable Scotch (1963) 103 eksemplarer
The Essential Galbraith (2001) 88 eksemplarer
The Nature of Mass Poverty (1979) 86 eksemplarer
The Galbraith Reader (1977) 52 eksemplarer
A China Passage (1973) 50 eksemplarer
Annals of an Abiding Liberal (1979) 47 eksemplarer
Økonomisk udvikling (1964) 35 eksemplarer
How to Control the Military (1969) 35 eksemplarer
Letters to Kennedy (1998) 23 eksemplarer
The McLandress dimension (1963) 16 eksemplarer
A Theory of Price Control (1980) 10 eksemplarer
World Reference Encyclopedia (1979) 8 eksemplarer
The Socially Concerned Today (1998) 7 eksemplarer
Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia (1958) 4 eksemplarer
Economia y subversion 4 eksemplarer
John Kenneth Galbraith introduces India (1974) — Introduktion — 4 eksemplarer
Economie hétérodoxe (2007) 2 eksemplarer
The underdeveloped country (1967) 2 eksemplarer
Dreams of India (1996) 1 eksemplar
Økonomiens profeter (1988) 1 eksemplar
Oekonomi og samfunn (1972) 1 eksemplar
Θρίαμβος 1 eksemplar

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On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (1989) — Bidragyder — 112 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Bidragyder — 31 eksemplarer
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Great Stories of American Businessmen (1972) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Money Should Be Fun (1980) — Introduktion — 13 eksemplarer
Theories of the Labor Movement (1987) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad — Introduktion, nogle udgaver1 eksemplar

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I read this book for a course that I am undertaking. I'm glad that I did.

It is hard to read this work without making comparisons to the present day: Galbraith lists five main causes for the crash and each has eerie echoes reverberating in the present day economic system. It seems that, as a species, we never learn, but are condemned to circle through our errors on a regular basis.
 
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the.ken.petersen | 28 andre anmeldelser | Mar 17, 2024 |
Excellent book - subject is what people are ready to do in order to gain wealth and what happens when everything goes down the drain. I simplify the matter, I agree, but it is strange that exactly the same thing happened not so long ago (just read the section describing the way speculations rise up and cause the entire structure to collapse) - what, nobody read the book? Or did they think it was obsolete?

Highly recommended.
 
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Zare | 28 andre anmeldelser | Jan 23, 2024 |
La truffe sono più d'una: quella del "mercato" quella della "grande impresa", quella del "management", quella del "pubblico/privato"...
 
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