Format:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780765633910
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9780765633927
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Dates, Comments, and Presidents -- Advice on Reading This Book -- Planning Versus Stagflation, 1973-1979 -- To the Lilies of the Field Who Toil Not -- Economics for Sybarites -- Why Economists Disagree -- The Galbraithian Revolution -- Of Sticky Prices and Stinking Fish: The Wage-Price Spiral -- Gunnar Myrdal's Challenge -- Portrait in Oil -- 2074 -- As You Like lt -- The Praise of Folly -- Inflation and Defunct Ideas: President Ford's Economic Summit -- The Economic Consequences of Friedrich A. von Hayek -- The Fear of Planning -- The Planning Bill -- Reply to a Critic of Planning -- Recovery Without Recovery -- The Continued Existence of New York City Is Not Essential to National Security -- Ten Rules for Full Employment Without Inflation -- The Lost Papers of Jack Tanner -- Do Economists Discover Economic Laws or Are They Passed by Congress? -- How to Plan the Economy -- Apologia pro Vita Mea -- The Last Chronicle of Barset -- Advising Carter and Congress -- The Backward Art of Giving Advice -- JKG versus the Angel -- What Is an Incomes Policy All About? -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Searching for Homo sapiens -- Why a Tax-based Incomes Policy Won't Work -- Anniversaries -- Once More, Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy -- Is Inflation Inevitable in Post-Keynesian Capitalism? -- When Britain Ran Out of Wood -- Back to Laissez Faire, 1988-1999 -- Thirty Years of Challenge -- The Speaker Speaks -- The Rise and Fall of theNew Deal -- Ownership and Control -- Labor's Future -- What's Wrong with Economists? -- The Good Society and Its Enemies -- Adam Smith: Right and Wrong -- Short Takes: Pleasant and Unpleasant Reviews -- The Labor Movement and Black Ghettos: Two Reviews -- The Short Twentieth Century -- The Theft of Russia
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Forty-thousand Years of History -- The Past and Future of Socialism: The Communist Manifesto at 150 -- The Truman Show -- World Development for the Few -- Remembering Wassily Leontief, 1905-1999 -- Social Health and Social Illth -- Further Down the Downward Spiral, 2005-2011 -- Robert Heilbroner, 1919-2005 -- The Biography of John Kenneth Galbraith -- The Way Out of Iraq -- One President, Five Disasters -- New Orleans: A Modest Proposal -- The Country Left the Man -- Garbage -- John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 -- The Heavy Burden of Wealth -- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands -- Iraqonomics -- How to Become a Friend of the Next President -- America's Suicide Pact with George W. Bush -- Poor People -- The New New Deal -- A Sick Society -- Hard Times -- Racism and Polite Conversation -- Super-Bubble -- The Case for Government -- Barack Obama and the Revolution of November 4, 2008 -- What Keynes Knew -- Postscript on the G20 Summit: What Members Can Learn from the WPA -- Recovery? -- Camp Runamuck -- Dissatisfaction Guaranteed: An Account of Two Bubbles -- Obama's Failures -- The Freefall That Isn't Free -- Tea Party Politics -- The Futility of Force -- The Crisis of Capitalism -- The Failure of Capitalism -- Big Money -- Violent Nation -- The Poorest Rich Country in the World: Address to the Graduating Class of 2011 -- Ice-T and the Pathology of Poverty -- China and the Future of the World -- The First Blossoms and Thorns of the Arab Spring -- Index -- About the Author
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