Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0395198437 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the Universit
A classic look at the story of money is updated for the 1990s by the eminent economist, offering an in-depth, often hilarious lesson in human behavior and a layman's course in the theory and practice of economics. Reprint.
"Old books can give you new ideas." according to Larry R Frank Sr, MBA, CFP. Although originally published in 1975 by John Kenneth Galbraith (and republished in 2001) this is a great foundational discussion from someone who was closer to the depression than we are today. This work is helpful for a reader to understand how we got to where we are today with money and banks and the governmental systems and institutions.First discussed is a brief history of how money developed and what it is (a medium of exchange that has taken many forms throughout history. page 5). "Attitudes toward. An introduction to money by an old-school Keynesian Stephen R. Laniel On one side of the world is a broad swath of professional mystery-makers, who stand in awe at the world's complexity, quite often view it as unanalyzable or irreducible, and let it stand pretty much as it was before. Then there are people in this world who want very much to take apart all the world's complex systems and machines, show you what they're made of, and say, "See? It's not all that awe-inspiring after all." I've decided that John Kenneth Galbraith, on the basis of "Money", is one of the latter.. Keynesian view on Monetary History is a prescient remdinder that we have much to learn "Money" is an easily read and easily comprehended history of how the western industrialized countries have created, adapted, and managed their monetary systems. Written by one of the post-WWII-era's most famous economists, John Kenneth Galbraith, "Money" is as much a lesson in American history and politics as it is in economics. Galbraith seeks to show how the management of monetary systems, driven by the interests of the rich and supported at times by conservative ideology, has been fraught with error, c
. From Library Journal The inimitable Galbraith here offers a history of money and inflation, which LJ's reviewer dubbed "lively." This edition has been updated with a new closing chapter and afterword. This remains "highly recommended" (LJ 9/1/75).Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc