A History of Economics

The Past as the Present

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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Economic ideas are very much a product of their time and place. If we are to understand modern economics, we can do so only through an understanding of its past, including the powerful and vested interests that moulded the theories to their financial advantage. This is the message of this account. From Aristotle's ethical judgements on slavery and usury, through the pre-revolutionary French philosophers in defence of agriculture, Adam Smith on early capitalism and Marx's reaction to it, the birth of the welfare state, the Keynesian Revolution and on to the controversial ideas of Milton Friedman, this book puts economists and their ideas in the life of their times and it shows how some of those ideas shape not only our present but our future too.

Author Biography:

John Kenneth Galbraith wrote more than 30 books, spanning four decades. He was awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris and Moscow University. He was the Paul M Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University. He died in 2006.

Release date NZ

August 29th, 1991

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

336

Dimensions

129x198x19

ISBN-13

9780140153958

Product ID

1743211

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