The New Industrial State - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395389917 ISBN 13: 9780395389911

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985

Synopsis

Updated facts and figures and some recast arguments take into account events that have occurred since the initial publication of Galbraith's classic study on the economic problems of a technological state

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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.

Review:

"In the decades since World War II, no American writer has done more to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable than John Kenneth Galbraith." (USA Today)

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0395389917
• ISBN 13: 9780395389911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 438