Title: A journey through economic time : a firsthand view /
Authors: Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Economic history; World politics
Abstract: In this ambitious, eminently readable survey, John Kenneth Galbraith exhibits unmatched insight and broad scope - from World War I and the Russian Revolution to the implications of Communism's fall, from the "superbly insane decade of the twenties" and the Great Depression to the Reagan era and beyond. Whether he is analyzing the advent of Keynesian theory or the end of colonialism and the emergent Third World, Galbraith epitomizes the hindsight and the vision of one who has been an active and outspoken participant in the world's economic history. He writes with authority about the forging of Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society and examines the consequences of the "unintended history of the 1980s." Keenly observed and brilliantly composed, A Journey Through Economic Time is the crowning achievement of a remarkable career, a comprehensive and accessible view of twentieth-century economic and political history that will be read and referred to for years to come.
Contents: 1. Larger dynamic -- 2. Great divide -- 3. Roots of disorder -- 4. Debt, inflation and John Maynard Keynes -- 5. Economics scene then : a digression -- 6. Portents -- 7. The Crash -- 8. The Great Depression -- 9. The New Deal -- 10. Revolution by John Maynard Keynes -- 11. Larger world -- 12. Second war -- 13. Britain and the other side -- 14. Peace, I -- 15. Peace, II -- 16. Good years -- 17. Decolonization, economic developemnt -- 18. Kennedy initiative -- 19. War on poverty and the war -- 20. Dim years -- 21. Victory from defeat -- 22. Reagan achievement -- 23. Great implosion -- 24. Uncertain miracle -- 25. Last chapter