The Essential GalbraithHMH, 9 жовт. 2001 р. - 336 стор. “Graceful and often witty” insights from the legendary economist, drawn from his most influential works (Library Journal). The Essential Galbraith includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time—from The Affluent Society, the groundbreaking book in which he coined the term “conventional wisdom,” to The Great Crash, an unsurpassed account of the events that triggered America’s worst economic crisis. Galbraith’s new introductions place the works in their historical moment and make clear their enduring relevance for the new century. The Essential Galbraith will delight old admirers and introduce one of our most beloved writers to a new generation of readers. It is also an indispensable resource for scholars and students of economics, history, and politics, offering unparalleled access to the seminal writings of an extraordinary thinker. |
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... Great Crash, 1929 Things Become More Serious 292 from The Great Crash, 1929 The Unfinished Business of the Century 307 Speech given at the London School of Economics, 1999 Sources 315 preface I send this book to press and on to vi C0ntents.
... Great Crash, 1929 Things Become More Serious 292 from The Great Crash, 1929 The Unfinished Business of the Century 307 Speech given at the London School of Economics, 1999 Sources 315 preface I send this book to press and on to vi C0ntents.
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... becomes passive in these markets. It was always one of the basic presuppositions of competition that market power ... become difficult and after existing firms had accepted a convention against price competition, was what destroyed ...
... becomes passive in these markets. It was always one of the basic presuppositions of competition that market power ... become difficult and after existing firms had accepted a convention against price competition, was what destroyed ...
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... become organized. A shift in this custom imposes prompt and heavy loss. The threat or even the fear of this sanction is enough to cause the supplier to surrender some or all of the rewards of its market power. It must frequently, in ...
... become organized. A shift in this custom imposes prompt and heavy loss. The threat or even the fear of this sanction is enough to cause the supplier to surrender some or all of the rewards of its market power. It must frequently, in ...
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... becomes of really profound significance only when the role of countervailing power is recognized. Countervailing power, as noted earlier, is organized either by buyers or by sellers in response to a stronger position across the market ...
... becomes of really profound significance only when the role of countervailing power is recognized. Countervailing power, as noted earlier, is organized either by buyers or by sellers in response to a stronger position across the market ...
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... become increasingly elaborate. They have a large literature, even a mystique. The defenders are able to say that the challengers of the conventional wisdom have not mastered their intricacies. Indeed, these ideas can be appreciated only ...
... become increasingly elaborate. They have a large literature, even a mystique. The defenders are able to say that the challengers of the conventional wisdom have not mastered their intricacies. Indeed, these ideas can be appreciated only ...
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The Essential Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith,Andrea D. Williams Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2001 |
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Сторінка 161 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection 1 of the state.
Сторінка 226 - The appropriate subjects of passionate contemplation and communion were a beloved person, beauty and truth, and one's prime objects in life were love, the creation and enjoyment of aesthetic experience and the pursuit of knowledge.
Сторінка 195 - To conquer political power has therefore become the great duty of the working classes. They seem to have comprehended this, for in England, Germany, Italy and France there have taken place simultaneous revivals, and simultaneous efforts are being made at the political reorganisation of the working men's party.
Сторінка 33 - They cannot be urgent if they must be contrived for him. And, above all, they must not be contrived by the process of production by which they are satisfied. For this means that the whole case for the urgency of production, based on the urgency of wants, falls to the ground. One cannot defend production as satisfying wants if that production creates the wants.
Сторінка 90 - James G. March and Herbert A. Simon, Organizations (New York: Wiley, 1958...
Сторінка 42 - The line which divides our area of wealth from our area of poverty is roughly that which divides privately produced and marketed goods and services from publicly rendered services. Our wealth in the first is not only in startling contrast with the meagerness of the latter, but our wealth in privately produced goods is, to a marked degree, the cause of crisis in the supply of public services. For we have failed to see the importance, indeed the urgent need, of maintaining a balance between the two.
Сторінка 34 - ... sense that we feel them whatever the situation of our fellow human beings may be, and those which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows. Needs of the second class...
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