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American economist, professor and political commentator; US Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 under Bill Clinton; professor of public policy at UC Berkeley; author of Saving Capitalism (2015).
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The New Industrial StateBook John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith is best known for his book The Affluent Society, which predates The New Industrial State.
Five Books interview: the best books on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
2012-03-23·fivebooks.com ↗
The Wheels of CommerceBook Fernand Braudel
What I like about the second volume, The Wheels of Commerce, is that he understood that the banking and the trading systems that evolved in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries were run, dominated, and designed by a different group entirely from the actual people who developed the goods and services that would be traded within this emerging system – the merchants, the craftsmen, the farmers.
Five Books interview: the best books on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
2012-03-23·fivebooks.com ↗
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