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Title: The Good Society : The Humane Agenda by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0-395-85998-0 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Interesting ideas poorly communicated
Comment: Galbraith's insight on society unfortunately gets lost in a maze of double negatives and confusing sentence structure. His ideas are sound, though he has a very off-putting pompous delivery. In fact, his verbosity and poor structure is so bad, that it turns what should be a slim read into a fairly mind-numbing experience. The book really needs to go back to an editor.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Treatise for Economic Justice
Comment: This book is on my short shelf of most important books of this era, in that Galbraith takes the work of his earlier economic analyses over many books, and gives an all-humanity based outline to consider for the 21st century.
Those who dismiss this book as non-economic I fear are stuck within narrow definitions, as opposed to the more human-based origins of the word economics (from oikonomia, home management). It is this narrow definition that is prone to the boom-bust cycles Galbraith discusses in earlier historical works on the history of modern economics, and is part ofthe current recessional problem.
This book is a cry for human-based economics, and would be a good book study or resource for businesses, community organizations, or churches around North America.
Rating: 1
Summary: Too bad Galbraith isn't much of an economist.
Comment: Galbraith is a very clear writer. He rarely uses technical jargon or mathematics. But unlike some other popular writers, it isn't because he is able to explain complex phenomena without them. He doesn't appear to understand them. This book reads like a fairy tale or child's letter to Santa Claus. Mr. Galbraith doesn't seem to understand economics well enough to pass economics 101. But he does have an excellent command of the English language.
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Title: The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0395925002 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Economics of Social Issues by Ansel Miree Sharp, Charles A. Register, Paul W. Grimes ISBN: 0072559551 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Pub. Date: 23 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $91.60 |
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Title: The Essential Galbraith by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0618119639 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Economics in Perspective: A Critical History by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0395355729 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith ISBN: 0140238565 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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