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John Kenneth Galbraith was 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 U.S. military power (among them The Great Crash: 1929, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State), Galbraith always made economics relevant to the crises of the day. This first full-length biography is, in Richard Parker's hands, an important reinterpretation both of public policy and of how economics is practised.
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'Superb background to some of the most exciting intellectual campaigning of the second half of the 20th century... Parker's biography reads as easily as a novel and is an outstanding piece of work.' SPECTATOR --'A majestic biography... A work of scholarship that manages to be a page-turner.'PROSPECT --'What makes Parker's biography valuable is his ability to place Galbraith in a sweeping and comprehensive history of the evolution of economic thought, and to keep sight of his subject's continuing relevance to the present day.' WASHINGTON POST --'Richard Parker has produced a rich, well-written and fittingly large monument to this super-sized intellectual of the 20th century.' GLOBE AND MAIL -- --*
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Richard Parker is an economist and senior fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.
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- PublisherOld Street Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1906964076
- ISBN 13 9781906964078
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages840
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