The Great Crash 1929
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2021
Summary
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America’s foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that led to the great crash of 1929.
No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the ‘gold rush fantasy’ in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the fa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241468081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241468086 |
| Author: | John Kenneth Galbraith, James K. Galbraith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith, born in 1908, was one of the twentieth century’s most influential economists. He produced dozens of books and hundreds of articles on economics, politics, foreign policy and the arts, his most famous including the popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years and was also active in politics, serving as an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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