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A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
$34.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Business Ser.
The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds." --The Atlantic. With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the ma ...Show more
Economics in Perspective - A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith; Richard Parker (Foreword by)
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objectiv ...Show more
The Affluent Society: Updated with a New Introduction by the Author by John Kenneth Galbraith
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Economics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'A compelling challenge to conventional thought' - "New York Times". In this updated edition of his classic text on the "economics of abundance", Galbraith lays bare the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. It is as relevant now, with the ever-widening gap between rich ...Show more
The Economics of Innocent Fraud by John Kenneth Galbraith
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Sounding the alarm on the gap between 'conventional wisdom' - a phrase he coined - and reality, Galbraith warns that the private sector and the public realm are becoming increasingly intertwined. He shows how politics and the media have colluded in the myth of a benign market system, accepting obscene p ...Show more
The Economics of Innocent Fraud (Pocket Penguins Series) by John Kenneth Galbraith
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Boo ...Show more
The Great Crash, 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
This work examines the 'gold-rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the Shandoah Corporation all come together in Galbraith's study of concerted human greed and folly.
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the 'gold rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations ...Show more
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J. ...Show more
The New Industrial State by John Kenneth Galbraith
$41.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: The James Madison Library in American Politics
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in "The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Adver ...Show more
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