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A History of Economics

byJohn Kenneth Galbraith

The Past as the Present

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A book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as a means of understanding modern economics.

About John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith, born in 1908, was one of the twentieth century's most influential economists. He produced dozens of books and hundreds of articles on economics, politics, foreign policy and the arts, his most famous including the popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years and was also active in politics, serving as an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780140153958
  • Length: 336 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 18mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 249g
  • Price: £14.99