By B. Laperche, D. Uzunidis
This ebook examines the existence and works of John Kenneth Galbraith and demonstrates how his non-conventional method of economics is important to knowing the difficulty that at the moment exists inside of economics and financial rules. With new views on his paintings, this ebook proposes new solutions to the industrial demanding situations either industrialized and constructing economies are dealing with.
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Thank you very much indeed. Note 1. J. Galbraith and E. Garcilazo, ‘Unemployment, Inequality and the Policy of Europe, 1984–2000’, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, LVII, 228 (2004), 3–28. References John Kenneth Galbraith, American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952). John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958). John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967).
The students had heard that I knew Galbraith and so they asked me to invite him. I suggested that three weeks is not a big window of opportunity for someone as well known as Galbraith. Nevertheless I would try. I phoned Ken and invited him. He indicated that his calendar was very full and he did not think he could make it. ’ Without a moment’s hesitation, Ken replied ‘Great! ’ Within a few hours, the details had been worked out and Galbraith came within the week. He even paid his own travel expenses so that the entire $2000 could go to help launch the JPKE.
And yet Where Do Galbraith’s Ideas Come From? 27 the seeds of today’s world – our world – were already present then: industry, technology and science were creating a new mode of production; cities were exploding in number and size, with uneasy mixtures of extreme wealth and extreme poverty side by side; and migration, mass education and mass entertainment together were giving birth to unprecedented new forms and possibilities for individual identity and community. It was a world, in short, in the throes of change – in many ways far greater changes than those of the past twenty years, when talk of post-industrialism, the new economy, and the revolutionary impact of computers, the internet, and biotechnology have been all the rage.