Great Crash 1929

Name: Great Crash 1929
Rating: 4.3 (3 reviews)
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN: 9780141038254

by John Kenneth Galbraith, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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223 pages1954Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780141038254

Depressions, 1929 Financial crises Economics Stock exchanges United states, economic policy, 1933-1945

About this book

No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J.K. Galbraith examines the 'gold rush fantasy' in American psychology and describes its dire consequences. The Florida land boom, the operations of Insull, Kreuger and Hatry, and the fabulous Shenandoah Corporation all come together in this penetrating study of concerted human greed and folly. From the cold figures of Wall Street the author wrenches a truly human drama.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 1954
Pages: 223
ISBN: 9780141038254
Language: en

About John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics from an institutional perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. - Source: Wikipedia