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John  Kenneth  Galbraith
[1908-2006]

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— John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith entry at Wikipedia
John Kenneth Galbraith Bibliography at Amazon

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Major  Works
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"Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings, 1952–1967" [2010] Edited by James K. Galbraith Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [9/2010] for $26.40 includes "American Capitalism" [1952], "The Great Crash, 1929" [1954], "The Affluent Society" [1958], and "The New Industrial State" [1967]

	"American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power" [1952 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith Transaction Publrs 9x6 pb [1/93] for $24.95 M.E. Sharpe hardcover [1/80] out of print/used
	"The Great Crash: 1929" [1954 bestseller] by John Kenneth Galbraith Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin mass pb [1/61] out of print/many used book entry at Wikipedia
	"The Affluent Society: 40th Anniv. Edition" [1958 bestseller] by John Kenneth Galbraith Establishes the premise that when the power of corporations is exercised in the short-sighted interest of expanding commodity production and the status of the few, the result is inconsistent with democracy and a major barrier to achieving the quality of life which the new industrial state could otherwise provide. Houghton Mifflin 8¼x5½ pb [10/98] for $10.40 book entry at Wikipedia
	"The New Industrial State" [1967 bestseller] by John Kenneth Galbraith "'The New Industrial State' remains the doorway thru which economics must pass, before progress starts up again." — (JKG's son economist) James K. Galbraith Princeton Univ Press mass pb [4/2007] for $16.53 Houghton Mifflin 8¼x5¾ 4th edition pb [9/85] out of print/used Signet mass pb [7/79] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia

"Economics and The Public Purpose" [1973]

"Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went" [1975]

"The Galbraith Reader" [1977]

"The Age of Uncertainty" [1977] also a B.B.C. 13-part television series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Uncertainty

"The Nature of Mass Poverty" [1979]

"The Anatomy of Power" [1983]

"Economics In Perspective: A Critical History" [1987]

"A History of Economics: The Past As The Present" [1991]

"The Essential Galbraith" [2001] by John Kenneth Galbraith Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [2001 edition] for $8.80 Mariner Books pb [10/2001] for $10.77

"John Kenneth Galbraith and The Future of Economics" [2005]

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Fiction by John Kenneth Galbraith

	"The McLandress Dimension" [1963] by John Kenneth Galbraith {as Mark Epernay} Themed short stories published in Esquire and Harper's Magazine designed as a guide to the heady (and humorous) behavioral theories of Boston psychometricist Dr. Herschel McLandress Houghton Mifflin hardcover [1963] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin hardcover [1963] out of print/used Hamilton import 8½x5½ hardcover [1964] out of print/used
	"The Triumph: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy" [1968] by John Kenneth Galbraith A satirical tale of political rebellion and U.S. intervention in a small Latin American country Houghton Mifflin 8x5½ pb [4/93] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin 8½x5½ hardcover [1968] out of print/used
	"A Tenured Professor" [1990] by John Kenneth Galbraith A satirical novel about a liberal professor of economics at Harvard who devises a secret stock forecasting model that makes a pile of money from the 'Black Monday' stock crash of 1987; he and his wife then set out to spend that money wisely, according to their liberal values, which quickly gets them into hot water. Mariner Books 8¼x5¾ pb [10/2001] for $14.95 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8¾x6 hardcover [2/90] out of print/many used Sinclair-Stevenson 8½x5½ hardcover [11/90] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia

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Other  Works

major series on economics for BBC television in 1977 "The Age of Uncertainty"

"The Scotch" [1963] aka "Made To Last" and
"The Non-potable Scotch: A Memoir of The Clansmen In Canada"
illustrated by Samuel H. Bryant; Galbraith's account of his boyhood environment
in Essex County in southern Ontario

"A Life in Our Times: A Memoir" [1981] by John Kenneth Galbraith Ballantine Books pb [4/82] for $27.00 Houghton Mifflin hardcover [5/81] out of print/hundreds used

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Works  About  John Kenneth Galbraith

"Unconventional Wisdom: Essays On Economics In Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith" [1989]
Edited by (Amherst economists) Samuel Bowles, Richard Edwards & William G. Shepherd

"John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics" [2005] by Richard Parker "A fascinating study on the collapse of the New Deal liberal order." Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $17.55 FS&G 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $23.10 author's official booksite

"Economist With A Public Purpose: Essays In Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith"
[Routledge 2001] Edited by Michael Keaney 0415212928

"John Kenneth Galbraith Looks Back" 1981 episode of "Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr."
http://www.amazon.com/Firing-William-Buckley-Kenneth-Galbraith/dp/B00ANCWU8U/

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JKG's son macro-economist
James  K.  Galbraith
credits listing [since 1975] at Internet Movie Database • Wikipedia • UTexas/ LBJ School faculty page

"Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and The American Future" [1989]

"Created Unequal: The Crisis In American Pay" [1998]

"Inequality and Industrial Change: A Global View" [2001] co-edited with Maureen Bemer

"The Predator State" [2008] recomm by John Nichols

"Inequality and Instability: A Study of The World Economy Just Before The Great Crisis" [Oxford Univ Press, 2012] ISBN 978-0-19-985565-0

"The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and The Future of Growth" [Simon & Schuster, 2014] ISBN 978-1-4516-4492-0

"Welcome To The Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and The Future of Europe" [Yale Univ Press, 2016] ISBN 978-0300-22044-5

"Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production" [2025]   by James K. Galbraith & Jing Chen This new book challenges flawed mainstream models that lead to distortions and bad policy. The big problem with mainstream economics is its obsession with a 19th-century illusion: equilibrium, which assumes that all economies are just a collection of independent markets, each one perfectly matching supply and demand. Galbraith thinks that economists have been avoiding one essential truth: entropy. Kindle Edition from Univ Chicago Press [1/2025] for $33.25 {sic} Univ Chicago Press 8½x5½ hardcover [1/2025] for $35.00

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L i n k s
John Kenneth Galbraith entry at Wikipedia
Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith 'In Memoriam' Page at Harvard

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