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Ladataan... John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His EconomicsTekijä: Richard Parker
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Galbraith, John Kenneth (Subject) A magnificant biography. The "his economics" part of the title is not a lie. The author, who is an economist himself, goes into highly detailed descriptions of where Galbraith fits in the history of ecomonics and his own ideas. In reading this book you learn a fair amount about economics as a disipline - and economists as humans. Galbraith was more influential and more correct than he is typically given credit for. Galbraith lived a fascinating life that spanned not only economics - but politics, academia, the army, agriculture, and diplomacy. The author provides extensive details each of these aspects of Galbraith's life. The book does suffer a bit from the typical biographers weakness for fooling in love with his subject. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
"John Kenneth Galbraith is America's most famous economist for good reason. A witty commentator on America's political follies and a versatile author of bestselling books that warn prophetically of the dangers of deregulated markets, corporate greed, and inattention to the costs of our military power, Galbraith always makes economics relevant to the crises of the day. This first authorized biography is, in Richard Parker's hands, an important reinterpretation both of public policy and of how economics is practiced." "Born in 1908 and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began to teach at Harvard in his twenties. In 1938 he left to work in New Deal Washington, eventually rising to become FDR's "price czar" during the war. Following his years as a writer at Fortune, where he did much to introduce the work of John Maynard Keynes to a wide audience, he returned to Harvard in 1949 and began writing the books that would make him famous." "Over the years, Galbraith developed a distinctive way of "doing economics," and it made him a critic both of conservatives and of many liberal economists. From his acerbic analysis of the nation's "private wealth and public squalor" in the 1950s to his denunciations of the Vietnam War, Galbraith regularly challenged the "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined)."--Jacket. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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