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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback book in good condition, but missing dust jacket if issued one . Small spot on the first page.

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: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.…

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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.…

First edition (not stated). Unpaged - 165 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 18.25cm. Dust jacket with light color fading and toning along spine, nicks and scuffing at spine and flap fold ends, short tear at head of rear flap fold. Red cloth with vibrant silver stamped spine lettering. Index. Features brief one-page essays (on rectos) of seventy-six notable American books regarding history, bibliography, architecture, and other subjects with a facsimile of each book's first edition title page on the opposing verso. Includes entries for Morse's THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY, Wilson's AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, Isaiah Thomas' THE HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, Kent's COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW, Webster's AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, etc. with contributing authors being Whitfield J. Bell, Jr, Frank Freidel, John Kenneth Galbraith, Art Buchwald, Warren Burger, Brendan Gill, Gene Tunney, Norman Cousins, Wendell Garrett, Gerald Ford, etc. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket.…

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

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.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 36pp stapled booklet, in stiff card covers. 8vo. Very gentle edge wear to card covers, small mild mark on back cover, else neat, clean, bright and tight. A record of the discussion and proceedings of a public meeting held by the Cambridge Liberal Association in 1983 to mark the centenary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes, including the remarks on Keynes delivered by Roy Jenkins, John Galbraith and Richard Wainwright. Hard to find.…

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.…

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).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 228 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 168 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 274 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 168 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.