ANNALS OF AN ABIDING LIBERAL. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

ISBN 10: 0395276179 / ISBN 13: 9780395276174

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1979

About this Item

xvi, 384 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Minor foxing/spotting to the top edge of the closed pages. Unclipped dustjacket with moderate sunning to spine, and minor shelfwear protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper by the author "For the Reuss' [Henry S. Reuss] This seemed the right title for the year. Read at least on the old F.B.I. and our beloved Edgar. Merry Christmas and all [signed] John 1988." First edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ANNALS OF AN ABIDING LIBERAL. Signed by John Kenneth Galbraith.
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395276179
• ISBN 13: 9780395276174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good condition (DJ)
• Weight: 2 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

About this title

Synopsis

The noted economist discusses some of the intrinsic problems of corporate power, questions of individual freedom and collective responsibility, the proper role of multinational corporations, and other topics of concern to both the marketplace and the academe

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.