John Kenneth Galbraith And the Future of Economics

This book examines the life and works of John Kenneth Galbraith and demonstrates how his non-conventional approach to economics is critical to understanding the trouble that currently exists within economics and economic policies. With new perspectives on his work, this book proposes new answers to the economic challenges both industrialized and developing economies are facing.

PHILIP ARESTIS Director of Research, Centre of Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK and Professor of Economics, Levy Economics Institute, USA NORMAN BIRNBAUM Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University Law Center, USA JOHN CORNWALL Emeritus Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University, Canada WENDY CORNWALL Emeritus Professor of Economics, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada FANNY COULOMB Assistant Professor of Economics, University Piere Mendès France, France PAUL DAVIDSON Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, New School University, USA JACQUES FONTANEL Professor of Economics, University Piere Mendès France, France JEAN-LUC GAFFARD Professor of Economics, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, IUF and OFCE, France JAMES K. GALBRAITH Lloyd M. Bentsen Jnr. Chair in Government/Business Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, USA JEFF MADRICK Editor, Challenge Magazine and New York Times, USA STANISLAV MENSHIKOV Professor, Central Mathematical Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia RICHARD PARKER Professor in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty, Harvard University, USA KUNIBERT RAFFER Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria JAMES SAWYER Louis B. Gaffney Chair of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University, USA MALCOLM SAWYER Professor of Economics, University of Leeds, UK ROBERT WADE Professor of Political Economy, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK