Almost Everyone’s Guide to Economics - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth; Salinger, Nicole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395271177 ISBN 13: 9780395271179

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978

Synopsis

The well-known economist progresses through a step-by-step explanation of economic principles, the effect of money and banking on the economy, and the reasons for inflation and unemployment

About this title

About the Author:

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0395271177
• ISBN 13: 9780395271179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 162