John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was a Canadian economist and politician. He taught at Princeton and Harvard. His works include The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty and Economics and the Public Purpose. Galbraith’s many honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.
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The Rush to Capitalism
October 25, 1990
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Viva Mencken!
June 28, 1990
The Diary of H.L. Mencken edited by Charles A. Fecher
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Celebrating Mencken
March 15, 1990
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The Ultimate Scandal
January 18, 1990
Inside Job: The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans by Stephen Pizzo, by Mary Fricker, by Paul Muolo
Other People’s Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess by Paul Zane Pilzer, with Robert Dietz
The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal by James Ring Adams
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From Stupidity to Cupidity
November 24, 1988
The Predators’ Ball: The Junk-Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them by Connie Bruck
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Incorporated, Michael Milken, Lowell Milken, Cary Maultasch, Pamela Monzert, Victor Posner, Steven Posner and Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation Secu United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Big Shots
May 12, 1988
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump, by Tony Schwartz
Boone by T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Merger Mania: Arbitrage, Wall Street’s Best Kept Money-Making Secret by Ivan F. Boesky
Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Himself by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz
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It Makes a Difference
October 23, 1986
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Truly the Last Tycoons
August 14, 1986
Ford: The Men and the Machine by Robert Lacey
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The Stockman Episode
June 26, 1986
The Triumph of Politics by David Stockman
The Real David Stockman by John Greenya, by Anne Urban, introduction by Ralph Nader
Stockman: The Man, The Myth, The Future
by Owen Ullmann
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Behind the Wall
April 10, 1986
Iacocca by Lee Iacocca, with William Novak
Iacocca by David Abodaher
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman by Ken Auletta
The Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul GettyRichest Man in the World by Robert Lenzner
At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield
by Morton Mintz
Nightmare: Women and the Dalkon Shield by Susan Perry, by Jim Dawson
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General Keynes
November 22, 1984
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 19, Activities 192429 edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 7, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
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Fair Comment
February 16, 1984
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The Man Who Stayed the Course
November 24, 1983
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The Wealth of the Nation
June 2, 1983
Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline by Samuel Bowles, by David Gordon, by Thomas E. Weisskopf
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Recession Economics
February 4, 1982
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Up from Monetarism and Other Wishful Thinking
August 13, 1981
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The Conservative Onslaught
January 22, 1981
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Two Pleas at Berkeley
July 17, 1980
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The No-WIN Society
June 12, 1980
The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change by Lester C. Thurow
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Oil: A Solution
September 27, 1979
Energy Future edited by Robert Stobaugh, edited by Daniel Yergin
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Change of Address
September 27, 1979
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How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class
July 19, 1979
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Working on the Railroad
December 21, 1978
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The Strategic Mind
October 12, 1978
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
by John Stockwell
Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA by William Colby, by Peter Forbath
Decent Interval by Frank Snepp
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Oil in the Family
August 17, 1978
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The Good Old Days
June 29, 1978
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A Hard Case
April 20, 1978
Two Cheers for Capitalism by Irving Kristol
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Reluctant Resistance?
February 9, 1978
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Hitler: Hard to Resist
September 15, 1977
The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
by Peter Hoffmann, translated by Richard Barry
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‘Veritas’ at Harvard: Another Exchange
July 14, 1977
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Help the Fabians
May 12, 1977
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Bananas
March 3, 1977
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The Refined and the Crude
February 3, 1977
The Control of Oil by John M. Blair
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Bananas
October 14, 1976
An American Company: The Tragedy of United Fruit by Thomas P. McCann, edited by Henry Scammell
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The “Excelsior” Affair
August 5, 1976
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The Power of Property
June 24, 1976
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Into the Sunset
March 18, 1976
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier, by David Horowitz
The Rockefeller Syndrome
by Ferdinand Lundberg
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Phase Two
March 9, 1972
