The Age of Uncertainty by John Kenneth Galbraith - 1977

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. 1977. First edition / full number line. Very Good book in a Very Good jacket. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Shelf and edgewear to jacket, especially at spine ends. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 365 pages.

A history of economic ideas by the most read social scientist of his era. The theme of this work is that what people believe about the workings of markets and their relationships to the state shapes history through the laws that are enacted or discarded. Contents: The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism; The Manners and Morals of High Capitalism; The Dissent of Karl Marx; The Colonial Idea; Lenin and the Great Ungluing; The Rise and Fall of Money; The Mandarin Revolution; The Fatal Competition; The Big Corporation; Land and People; The Metropolis; Democracy, Leadership, Commitment.