Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Editor's Introduction -- Foreword / Galbraith, James K. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Fourth Edition: On the Perils and Rewards of Economic Dissonance -- 1. Change and the Planning System -- 2. The Imperatives of Technology -- 3. The Nature of...

Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that...

This paper provides measures of earnings inequality in the United States across economic sectors, measured within states, from 1969 through 2012, and of income inequality across counties, from 1969 through 2007. These measures permit detailed decomposition of changes in inequality, highlighting...

A group of experts associated with the Economists for Peace and Security and the Initiative for Rethinking the Economy met recently in Paris to discuss financial and monetary issues; their viewpoints, summarized here by Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith, are largely at odds with the global...

The global abatement of the inflationary climate of the past three decades, combined with continuing financial instability, helped to promote the worldwide holding of U.S. dollar reserves as a cushion against financial instability outside the United States, with the result that, for the United...

If empire and war are neglected topics in modern economics, they seem on examination a rich field, and no doubt one with renewed scholarly potential. The economics of war and empire touches on many of the grand themes of the discipline: the conditions under which there are gains from trade,...