ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1993
Oblast: Ekonomija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U dobrom stanju, tvrdi povez sa zaštitnim omotom.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Viking
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 24 Jun. 1993
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages


The world-renowned economist reviews the great speculative episodes of the last three centuries, including the calamitous junk-bond follies of the 1980s, and shows how the lessons of history can help people avoid financial calamity.

With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow? In this primer, the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith reviews the major speculative episodes of the last three centuries - from the 17th century tulip craze to the calamitous junk-bond follies of the 1980s. His insights provide important lessons on speculative economics, and demonstrate conclusively that money and intelligence are not necessarily linked.

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.