Main description: In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a...

This text discusses the continuing relevance of one of the most prominent economists of the twentieth century. The contributors explore the continuing relevance of Galbraith's arguments to current controversies and problems

La caída del comunismo en Europa del Este es la más grande transformación del mundo económico y político desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Nada tan importante pudo imaginarse. Pero esta transformación ha padecido una lectura política simplista y hasta peligrosa. Consecuencia de lo que yo...

The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents and first ladies, diplomats and schoolchildren, the McCarthy 'loyalty board', foreign heads of state and fellow economists, and a host of other correspondents. In his long and cosmopolitan...

With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in <i>The New Industrial State</i>, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest...