Libros de John Kenneth Galbraith (4 libros)

In his memoirs, John Kenneth Galbraith recalls amusingly, even brilliantly, the important and low moments in his life, the men and women he met who were great, only interesting, entertaining or even absurd. Galbraith studied agriculture in his native Canada and agricultural economics at UC-Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, served briefly in FDR’s administration and went on to Harvard. In Cambridge, England, he discovered the new economics of John Maynard Keynes. During World War II in Washington, he held the key job of organizing and administering the system of wartime...

This biting satire of academia and high finance by the Harvard economist “is ingenious and humorous even as it chills and cuts close to the bone” (The New York Times). John Kenneth Galbraith served in the Kennedy administration before becoming one of the twentieth century’s foremost economists and public intellectuals. In A Tenured Professor, he spins his wealth of knowledge—and knowledge of wealth—into a delightfully comical morality tale. Montgomery Martin, a Harvard economics professor, creates a stock forecasting model which makes it possible for him to uncover society's hidden...

John Kenneth Galbraith has long been at the center of American economics, in key positions of responsibility during the New Deal, World War II, and since, guiding policy and debate. His trenchant new book distills this lifetime of experience in the public and private sectors; it is a scathing critique of matters as they stand today. Sounding the alarm about the increasing gap between reality and "conventional wisdom" -- a phrase he coined -- Galbraith tells, along with much else, how we have reached a point where the private sector has unprecedented control over the public sector. We have...

Tras una docena de ediciones, este libro del gran economista norteamericano John K. Galbraith se ha convertido en referencia obligada para iniciarse en los fundamentos de la economía. Con estilo deliberadamente provocativo, y en las antípodas del lenguaje críptico que suelen utilizar algunos economistas para analizar la realidad económica, el profesor Galbraith se enfrenta aquí con esa práctica habitual e intenta explicar, de manera asequible para los no iniciados, qué es la economía y cómo funcionan sus mecanismos. Incitado por Nicole Salinger, el profesor Galbraith desvela los...