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One hundred years after his birth, J. K. Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929 is again on the bestseller lists. And in the current financial and economic tumult, familiar Galbraithian concernssuch as the power and dominance of overweening corporations, national and global poverty, and the careless destruction of the natural environmentonce again loom large in the public consciousness.
Galbraith's contemporaries included such towering intellects as Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Milton Friedman, Wassily Leontief, Simon Kuznets, James Meade, Nicolas Kaldor, and Joan Robinson. These intellectual giants took Galbraith and his ideas seriously. Today, however, Galbraith remains professionally unpopular, and many economists have either forgotten his contribution, or fail sufficiently to acknowledge their intellectual debt to him.
This new four-volume collection from Routledge remedies this failing by highlighting Galbraith's centrality to the crucial economic debates of the
