The Age of Uncertainty

Hardcover, large in-8, dj, 366 pp., illustrations and photos in BW, notes, index. The book accompanied the 13 part television series of the BBC. John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 1970s and he filled the role of public intellectual in this period on matters of economics. (source: Wiki)