Unconventional wisdom:essays on economics in honor of John Kenneth Galbraith

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Galbraith John Kenneth, 1908-; Bowles Samuel.; Edwards Richard, 1944-; Shepherd William G.
Published: Houghton-Mifflin,
Publisher Address: Boston
Publication Dates: 1989.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: x, 348 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0395491797
Index Number: F091
CLC: F091.349
Call Number: F091.349/U548
Contents: "Books by John Kenneth Galbraith": p. [347]-348.
Includes bibliographical references.
The pathologies of persuasion / Kenneth E. Boulding -- How the Keynesian revolution was exported from America / Albert O. Hirschman -- Why do most economists know so little about the economy? / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Varities of dissent : Galbraith and radical political economy / Samuel Bowles and Richard Edwards -- The power of words / Robert Lekachman - The power to switch : on the political economy of consumer sovereignty / Herbert Gintis -- Esthetics, economics, and wit / Mancur Olson -- Dissent a century ago : the Veblen era / Lloyd G. Reynolds -- What is economics? what is an economist? : the case of J.K. Galbraith / Eric Roll -- Galbraith as artist and scientist / Paul A. Samuelson -- Power, planning, public purpose / Walter Adams and James W. Brock. Reuniting economics with politics / Henry S. Reuss -- On the nature of monopoly / William G. Shepherd -- Putting capitalists back into capitalism / Lester C. Thurow -- The political economy of urban land : the right of property and the "price revolution" / Shigeto Tsuru -- Trade and the planning system / James K. Galbraith -- The new industrial state and the cold war revisited / Mary Kaldor -- Developmental Marshall Plan / Wassily Leontief -- The economic structure of socialism / Stanislav Menshikov -- Development and armament / Jan Tinbergen -- Four decades of John Kenneth Galbraith / George W. Ball -- The most famous professor at Harvard / Henry Rosovsky.