Economics, peace and laughter : a contemporary guide / John Kenneth Galbraith; essays edited by Andread A. William
Imprint
Middlesex : Penguin, 1971
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xi, 303 p ; 18 cm
CONTENT
Enomics and the quality of life. -- The language of economics. -- How Keynes came to America. -- Economics as a system of belief. -- Inflation, recession or controls. -- The Nixon administration and the great socialist revival. -- On the grave and frightening perils of financial history. -- Some reflection on public achitecture and public works. -- Foreign policy : the plain lessons of a bad decade. -- The American ambassador. -- The proper purpose of economic development. -- Poverty and the way people behave. -- The causes of poverty : a classification. -- A differential prescription. -- The dya Nikita Khrushchev visited the establishment. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, general. -- Richard Nixon. -- A retrospect on Albert Speer. -- Ed O'Connor. -- William F. Buckley, Jr : the unmaking of a conservative. -- John Steinbeck. -- The nicest village in the country. -- Why do you go to Gstaad? -- Berkeley in the thirties