Capitalism, Communism, and Coexistence: From the Bitter Past to a Better Prospect - Hardcover

John Kenneth Galbraith; Stanislav Menshikov

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395473160 ISBN 13: 9780395473160

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1988

Synopsis

Shares insights into the history and development of socialist economies and capitalism

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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.

From Publishers Weekly:

For 10 days in his Vermont farmhouse, liberal economist Galbraith (The Affluent Society) held a minisummit with Menshikov, a Soviet economist who edits Prague's party journal. This transcript of their cautious talks offers fresh ideas for those seeking closer U.S.-Soviet relations. Both agree that their respective countries should cooperate on medical research, development of energy sources and the war against narcotics. Both are receptive to joint economic projects that might stimulate an expansion of trade. They also criticize establishment interests on both sides that seek to perpetuate the cold war. As the duo takes turns cross-examining each other on the relative merits of capitalism and communism, Menshikov offers a picture of socialism at odds with the one commonly found in the U.S. news media. Galbraith calls for higher taxes in the U.S. but otherwise offers few concrete proposals to remedy what he sees as a capitalism in decline since 1970. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0395473160
• ISBN 13: 9780395473160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 225