Economics Peace And Laughter: A Contemporary Guide
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few economists have wielded the pen with as much wit and intellectual authority as John Kenneth Galbraith, and Economics Peace and Laughter stands as a brilliant testament to that rare gift. This collection of essays, edited by Andrea D. Williams, gathers some of Galbraith's most incisive writing on the great economic, political, and social questions of the twentieth century, from the mechanics of capitalism to the absurdities of modern power, all delivered with the author's signature blend of sharp analysis and dry humour. Galbraith writes not merely as an economist but as a public intellectual of the first order, one who understood that the forces shaping markets are inseparable from those shaping society. His prose is lucid, elegant, and disarmingly readable — a quality that set him apart from his contemporaries and earned him a global audience far beyond the academy. Each essay in this volume rewards the reader with fresh perspectives on enduring questions, and together they present a portrait of a thinker whose ideas on wealth, power, and human folly remain as provocative and relevant today as when they were first written.
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Houghton Mifflin Company Boston
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Few economists have wielded the pen with as much wit and intellectual authority as John Kenneth Galbraith, and Economics Peace and Laughter stands as a brilliant testament to that rare gift. This collection of essays, edited by Andrea D. Williams, gathers some of Galbraith's most incisive writing on the great economic, political, and social questions of the twentieth century, from the mechanics of capitalism to the absurdities of modern power, all delivered with the author's signature blend of sharp analysis and dry humour. Galbraith writes not merely as an economist but as a public intellectual of the first order, one who understood that the forces shaping markets are inseparable from those shaping society. His prose is lucid, elegant, and disarmingly readable — a quality that set him apart from his contemporaries and earned him a global audience far beyond the academy. Each essay in this volume rewards the reader with fresh perspectives on enduring questions, and together they present a portrait of a thinker whose ideas on wealth, power, and human folly remain as provocative and relevant today as when they were first written.