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The Great Crash

Anniversary Edition
Pages
206
Published
1979
Language
English

Synopsis

A definitive economic history of the speculative mania and market excesses that culminated in the Wall Street crash of 1929, written by one of America's most prominent economists.

About the author

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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics from an institutional perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard Univers...