Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by
Economist with a public purpose: essays in honour of John Kenneth Galbraith
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0415212928 0415758173 0203461169 1280317612 0203253310 0429232411 1134614578 9780203253311 9780203461167 9780415212922 9781134614578 9780429232411 9781280317613 9781134614523 9781134614561 9780415758178 113461456X Year: 2001 Publisher: London Routledge

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This text discusses the continuing relevance of one of the most prominent economists of the twentieth century. The contributors explore the continuing relevance of Galbraith's arguments to current controversies and problems.


Multi
The selected letters of John Kenneth Galbraith
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9781107019881 1107019885 9781139095853 110816305X 1108162258 1108162096 1108161138 110816241X 1108162576 1108163211 1139095854 9781108163217 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Cambridge University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents and first ladies, diplomats and schoolchildren, the McCarthy 'loyalty board', foreign heads of state and fellow economists, and a host of other correspondents. In his long and cosmopolitan life, Galbraith wrote thousands of letters, and Richard P. F. Holt has selected the most important of these from his archival research, now available in print for the first time. The letters provide an intimate account of the three main political goals to which Galbraith devoted his professional life: ending war, fighting poverty, and improving quality of life by achieving a balance between private and public goods in an affluent capitalist society. Showing his thoughtful insights and charming wit, this collection confirms Galbraith as a man of broad learning, superb literary skills, and deeply held progressive ideals.


Book
The economics of John Kenneth Galbraith : introduction, persuasion, and rehabilitation.
Author:
ISBN: 9780521518765 9780511778094 9781107404489 0511778090 9780511860508 0511860501 0521518768 0511861478 1107216125 1282943596 9786612943591 0511859635 0511858760 0511857896 0511857020 1107404487 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"The recent financial crisis has once again seen John Kenneth Galbraith return to the bestseller lists. Yet, despite the continued popular success of his works, Galbraith's contribution to economic theory is rarely recognized by today's economists. This book redresses the balance by providing an introductory and sympathetic discussion of Galbraith's theoretical contributions, introducing the reader to his economics and his broader vision of the economic process. The book highlights and explains key features of Galbraith's economic thought, including his penetrating critique of society, his distinctive methodology, his specific brand of Keynesianism, and his original - but largely ignored - contribution to the theory of the firm. It also presents, for the first time, a detailed examination of Galbraith's monetary economics and revisits his analysis of financial euphoria. This unique work seeks to rehabilitate Galbraith's contribution, setting out several directions for possible future research in the Galbraithian tradition"--


Book
Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner: economics and dissent in an age of optimism
Author:
ISBN: 1400859336 0691607591 9781400859337 0691077711 1306986826 Year: 1988 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction to American social thought since the 1950s but also a wide-ranging examination of the contemporary failures of American liberal ideology. As he explicates the works of these three men--all of whom moved easily between the academic world and the arenas of politics, government, or journalism--it becomes clear that present policy debates have not even begun to resolve the dilemmas their writings have exposed.Millions of readers know J. K. Galbraith, the renowned Harvard economist and social theorist who developed the concept of the "New Industrial State"; Michael Harrington, the de facto leader of the American socialist movement who revealed the existence of the "other America"; and Robert Heilbroner, the incisive economic thinker who questioned the naive optimism of Americans even before it significantly eroded in the mid-1970s. In this book they emerge as individuals, as thinkers, and as part of a larger picture of American efforts to reconcile democratic values and humane social goals with modern corporate capitalism.The study begins with a portrait of the U.S. economy and society at the end of the Civil War and discusses the momentous changes brought about by the rapid industrialization that followed. The central portion revolves around Galbraith, Harrington, and Heilbroner and explores their contributions to the intellectual and political discourse on key issues confronting America in the decades after 1945: the evolutionary trajectory of managerial capitalism; the persistence of poverty and class divisions; the expansion of the welfare state and the public sector in general; and the assault on welfare capitalism by the New Right in the 1980s. The concluding chapter examines the causes and consequences of the fervent adherence of Americans to liberal ideology, the origins and philosophical bases of that set of beliefs, and its future prospects.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Listing 1 - 5 of 5
Sort by