A History of Economics: The Past as the Present
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Published for the first time: 1/1/1987
336 pages, Paperback
Genres: Finance, Economics, Business, History, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy
A book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as a means of understanding modern economics.
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