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Description edit
The subject of this book was also the subject of a thirteen-part television series. The author traces ideas of economists and social philosophers who shape actions and events even when we are unaware of it.
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First Sentence edit
On one of the last pages of his last and most famous book John Maynard Keynes - by wide agreement the most influential economist of this century - observes that '...the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
Table of Contents edit
Foreword
On The Age of Uncertainty
1. The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
2. The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism
3. The Dissent of Karl Marx
4. The Colonial Idea
5. Lenin and the Great Ungluing
6. The Rise and Fall of Money
7. The Mandarin Revolution
8. The Fatal Competition
9. The Big Corporation
10. Land and People
11 The Metropolis
12. Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
A Major Word of Thanks
Notes
List of Illustrations
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Kenneth Galbraith (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 330.09
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