| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 820 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-784) and index. |
| Contents |
On first coming to Cambridge -- Growing up in special places -- Harvard in the 1930s -- American agriculture and the new deal -- Getting ready for Keynes -- Going to the temple -- Moving on--toward war -- Now comes war -- Luce, Keynes, and "The American century" -- Surveying the consequences of war -- A new war beginning -- Back to Harvard : new economics and new voices -- Stevenson and the liberals -- The affluent society : parting company with the mainstream -- Kennedy, Sputnik, and "liberal growthmanship" -- On the new frontier -- India -- Tragedy, triumph, tragedy -- The new industrial state -- Collisions -- Galbraith and Nixon : two Keynesian presidents -- The price of hypocrisy -- The great unraveling -- The economics of joy -- Joy fades -- Century's end -- The Galbraith legacy. |
| Subject |
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
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Economists -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0374281688 (alk. paper) |
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