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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was a Canadian economist and politician. He taught at Princeton and Harvard. His works include The Affluent Society, The Age of Uncertainty and Economics and the Public Purpose. Galbraith’s many honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Lomonosov Gold Medal, the Order of Canada, and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award.
The Ultimate Scandal
Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans
by Stephen Pizzo and Mary Fricker and Paul Muolo
Other People's Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess
by Paul Zane Pilzer, with Robert Dietz
The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal
by James Ring Adams
January 18, 1990 issue
From Stupidity to Cupidity
The Predators' Ball: The Junk-Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them
by Connie Bruck
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated, Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Incorporated, Michael Milken, Lowell Milken, Cary Maultasch, Pamela Monzert, Victor Posner, Steven Posner and Pennsylvania Engineering Corporation Secu
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
November 24, 1988 issue
Big Shots
Trump: The Art of the Deal
by Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz
Boone
by T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Merger Mania: Arbitrage, Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret
by Ivan F. Boesky
Behind the Scenes: In Which the Author Talks About Ronald and Nancy Reagan and Himself
by Michael K. Deaver, with Mickey Herskowitz
May 12, 1988 issue
The Stockman Episode
The Triumph of Politics
by David Stockman
The Real David Stockman
by John Greenya and Anne Urban, introduction by Ralph Nader
Stockman: The Man, The Myth, The Future
by Owen Ullmann
June 26, 1986 issue
Behind the Wall
Iacocca
by Lee Iacocca, with William Novak
Iacocca
by David Abodaher
Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman
by Ken Auletta
The Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul Getty
Richest Man in the World
by Robert Lenzner
At Any Cost: Corporate Greed, Women, and the Dalkon Shield
by Morton Mintz
Nightmare: Women and the Dalkon Shield
by Susan Perry and Jim Dawson
April 10, 1986 issue
General Keynes
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes
edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 19, Activities 1924–29
edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 7, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
edited by Elizabeth Johnson, edited by Donald Moggridge
November 22, 1984 issue
The Wealth of the Nation
Beyond the Waste Land: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline
by Samuel Bowles and David Gordon and Thomas E. Weisskopf
June 2, 1983 issue
The No-WIN Society
The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
by Lester C. Thurow
June 12, 1980 issue
Oil: A Solution
Energy Future
edited by Robert Stobaugh, edited by Daniel Yergin
September 27, 1979 issue
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