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Galbraith The Age of Uncertainty by John Kenneth Soft Cover
Galbraith The Age of Uncertainty by John Kenneth
Soft Cover
365 pages
Copyright 1977
CONTENTS
Foreword
On The Age of Uncertainty 7
1. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism 11
2. The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism43
3. The Dissent of Karl Marx 77
4. The Colonial Idea 109
5. Lenin and the Great Ungluing 133
6. The Rise and Fall of Money 161
7. The Mandarin Revolution 197
8. The Fatal Competition 227
9. The Big Corporation 257
10. Land and People 280
11. The Metropolis 303
12. Democracy, Leadership, Commitment 324
A Major Word of Thanks 343
Notes 345
List of Illustrations 349
Index 355
ON THE BACK COVER
"A marvelous thing, enlightening, stimulating, and fun . . . Galbraith is enormously entertaining even while being serious. His put-downs all of them entirely justified of economists, politicians, generals, the upper classes, are both telling and funny . . . One can only celebrate his humor and wit." Richard J. Walton, Chicago Tribune Book World
"If economics can be made both intelligible and entertaining, a proposition of which I often despair, Galbraith is the writer and this is the book to turn the trick." Robert Lekachman. Professor of Economics at City University of New York
"Galbraith's project attempts to do for the history of economics what Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man did for science and what Kenneth Clark's Civilisation did for art. Of the three the professor emeritus from Harvard has the most difficult job . . . He confronts the world and its problems as a supremely rational man and sorbe-thing of an entertainer. Recalling the biblical warning to the wealthy, he writes, 'There is that terrible needle through which the afflyent must be threaded before they can emerge in paradise. Accordingly, if you are either rich or a camel, you should, as a purely practical calculation, enjoy life now.' Behind this elegant raillery, Galbraith maintains a cool, doctor-patient relationship with the world..The combination of wit and seriousness makes him a distinguished popularizer and advocate who can waltz through wars, revolutions, famines, depressions and global follies without ever losing the crease of his Saville Row prose."R Z Sheppard, Time
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