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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Support Small Business by buying this book! 1st Ed / 1st Printing - Clean!! No Marks. Light Wear On Dust Jacket. Gently Read.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chinese Pirated Edition. 22 cm, xii, 382, [6] p. Index. Some DJ wear and tear. Name on fep. John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), was a Canadian-American economist, public official and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, a time during which Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard Universities a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State. Some of his work has been criticized by economists Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness brought him wide fame during his lifetime. Galbraith was one of the few to receive both the World War II Medal of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contributions to science. The government of France made him a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur. A collection of essays on politics, economics, peace, human aspirations and happiness, trade, diplomacy, the role of American Presidents within these spheres, the unfolding of modern American history, and various related issues and topics. Derived from a Kirkus review: Articles and lectures, reprinted from the '60s, on economics, contemporaries, and foreign policy, omitting Galbraith's writings on the Vietnam war. The lighter pieces are intelligent and amusing; they provide the most of what people read Galbraith for. These include reviews of Eisenhower, Svetlana, Edwin O'Connor, Acheson, William Buckley; autobiography and reminiscence (the time Khrushchev met the ruling class at Harriman's in 1959), comment on the language of economics, etc. In the economics section, Galbraith takes numerous bows for his prescience on the ecology issue -- which he seems to regard as chiefly a matter of aesthetics; calls for permanent wage-price controls; gives a sharp summary of the 1929 Crash; and in "The Nixon Administration and the Great Socialist Revival" spins a tour de force about government subsidies to sagging corporations. This essay also has the virtue of timeliness. Yet there is enough pleasure and instruction, especially in the reviews, to satisfy the book's audience.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 400 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing hardcover with removable plastic covered unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket edges are creased and nicked. Board spine is sunned, and ends are a little bumped. Page block is lightly foxed. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third Printing. 22 cm, 382p. Index. Wear to DJ edges. John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, public official and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, a time during which Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State. Some of his work has been criticized by economists Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman and Robert Solow. Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness brought him wide fame during his lifetime. Galbraith was one of the few to receive both the World War II Medal of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contributions to science. The government of France made him a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur. A collection of essays on politics, economics, peace, human aspirations and happiness, trade, diplomacy, the role of American Presidents within these spheres, the unfolding of modern American history, and various related issues and topics. Derived from a Kirkus review: Articles and lectures, reprinted from the '60s, on economics, contemporaries, and foreign policy, omitting Galbraith's writings on the Vietnam war. The lighter pieces are intelligent and amusing; they provide the most of what people read Galbraith for. These include reviews of Eisenhower, Svetlana, Edwin O'Connor, Acheson, William Buckley; autobiography and reminiscence (the time Khrushchev met the ruling class at Harriman's in 1959), comment on the language of economics, etc. In the economics section, Galbraith takes numerous bows for his prescience on the ecology issue -- which he seems to regard as chiefly a matter of aesthetics; calls for permanent wage-price controls; gives a sharp summary of the 1929 Crash; and in "The Nixon Administration and the Great Socialist Revival" spins a tour de force about government subsidies to sagging corporations. This essay also has the virtue of timeliness. Yet there is enough pleasure and instruction, especially in the reviews, to satisfy the book's audience.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. (1st) Edited by Andrea D. Williams. On first front end paper in black felt-tip pen: "For Tom Brazill from J. Kenneth Galbraith." Dark blue cloth with gilt initials fine on front, 449 pages. DJ has color photo of tall Galbraith in stadium stands, very slight surface wear to front tips and spine top right edge, tiny tear at bottom front spine indentation, very tiny tear at top back edge near tip. Near Very Good DJ/Very Fine book. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition blue linen boards with silver front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by John Kenneth Galbraith; Author Dedication; Introduction and Index. "The decade of the sixties was a busy time for John Kenneth Galbraith -- in economics, politics, and an ambassador, a literary citic, writing fiction, and serving, as he once said, as a general scold. This book is the rich harvest of these years. In economics it goes back to the Keynesian revolution with his much reprinted essay on "How Keynes Came to America." It carries the author's ideas forward to The New Industrial State and to important writing beyond. Here, on inflation, the environment, the quality of life, the causes of the curious unevenness of our economic blessings, the reasons for the revolt of the young, the transitory character of financial genius in a falling market, are some of the most influential economic ideas of our time, and, in their application to current problems, some of the most practical. After the essays on economics come those on peace -- on how he hopes the foreign policy disasters of the sixties may be avoided in the seventies, how economic development may better serve the well-being of the poor lands, how the world may be a slightly more tranquil place for all. Here Mr. Galbraith draws, sometimes with wry humor, on his experience in Asia and his experience also with the men responsible for our misfortunes there. His models of economic development, though widely published and discussed in the underdeveloped countries, are here available in the United States for the first time. In the third group of essays, the solid vein of humor which illuminates the author's work comes fully to the surface. Here is his reaction to the solemn, confident and often comic people who have crossed his path. And here too is his appreciation of such greatly amusing men as John Steinbeck and Edwin O'Connor, who were his friends. And also of others - Dean Acheson, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- of whom he has not always spoken so gently. In this section he tells of the places -- Berkeley, California; Newfane, Vermont; Switzerland -- to which he has gone (or to which he goes) with particular pleasure and where the reader now joins him for an informative and amusing tour. The diligent anthologist and editor Whit Burnett set out.to discover who among living authors literate Americans thought the best. He queried many groups.John Kenneth Galbraith was always near the top. Among nonfiction writers he was almost always the first. This is the writing that won him this reputation." - excerpt from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. …