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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics Book
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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 (among them The Great Crash and The Affluent Society), 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 and raised on a small Canadian farm, Galbraith began to teach at Harvard in 1934, then worked in New Deal Washington, was FDR's "price czar" during the war and an editor at Fortune before returning to Harvard in 1949. From his early championing of Keynes and his acerbic analysis of America's "private wealth and public squalor" to his denunciations of the Vietnam War, Galbraith regularly challenged the "conventional wisdom" (his phrase). Parker's account of Galbraith's friendship with John F. Kennedy, whom he served as ambassador to India, is filled with new insights and information, as are his chapters on Galbraith's responses to the mistakes made by subsequent administrations in managing America's wealth and power. This masterful chronicle gives color, depth, and meaning to the record of an extraordinary life.
- 0374281688
- 9780374281687
- Richard Parker
- 16 February 2005
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Hardcover (Book)
- 832
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