A Contemporary Guide to Economics, Peace, and Laughter [Hardcover]

John Kenneth Galbraith (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 382 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T); First Printing (stated) edition (June 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395120950
• ISBN-13: 978-0395120958
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,265,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.