The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith

Richard P. F. Holt is a Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University. He has authored and edited many books, two of which were named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He has also published more than sixty articles and book reviews in a variety of academic journals, and has served on various editorial boards.

• Introduction; 1. 1930s: Berkeley and Harvard; 2. 1940s: war and price czar; 3. 1950s: liberal democrats and The Affluent Society; 4. 1960s: triumph and tragedy; 5. 1970s: the shooting star of American liberalism; 6. 1980s: the rise of American conservatism; 7. 1990s: political and economic moderation; 8. 2000s: a goodbye: economics, peace and laughter; About the editor.

'John Kenneth Galbraith occupied a unique place in American economics: a scholar, a policy advocate, a public official, and a popular author on both the printed page and the television screen. We admired each other and were good friends while both at Harvard. The letters now published reveal the sharp intellect and precision of wording in nailing down personal, political, and economic presentations and exposing cant and imprecision.' Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University, California, and Winner of the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences