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Richard P. F. Holt - The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith

Av Richard P. F. Holt

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The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents and first ladies, diplomats and schoolchildren, the McCarthy 'loyalty board', foreign heads of state and fellow economists, and a host of other correspondents. In his long and cosmopolitan life, Galbraith wrote thousands of letters, and Richard P. F. Holt has selected the most important of these from his archival research, now available in print for the first time. The letters provide an intimate account of the three main political goals to which Galbraith devoted his professional life: ending war, fighting poverty, and improving quality of life by achieving a balance between private and public goods in an affluent capitalist society. Showing his thoughtful insights and charming wit, this collection confirms Galbraith as a man of broad learning, superb literary skills, and deeply held progressive ideals.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-04-17
  • Mått: 160 x 235 x 45 mm
  • Vikt: 1 130 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 742
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781107019881
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Richard P. F. Holt is a Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University. He has authored and edited many books, two of which were named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also published more than sixty articles and book reviews in a variety of academic journals, and has served on various editorial boards.

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'John Kenneth Galbraith occupied a unique place in American economics: a scholar, a policy advocate, a public official, and a popular author on both the printed page and the television screen. We admired each other and were good friends while both at Harvard. The letters now published reveal the sharp intellect and precision of wording in nailing down personal, political, and economic presentations and exposing cant and imprecision.' Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University, California, and Winner of the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

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