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John Kenneth Galbraith, 2002.
A biography of economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 12 sources, £ 50.95
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A discussion of the life and work of economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. John Kenneth Galbraith was a Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University. He was internationally known for his development of Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics, the economics of the modem large firm, as well as for his writing and his active involvement in American politics
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"The Great Crash: 1929," by John Kenneth Galbraith, 2008.
A review of John Kenneth Galbraith's book "The Great Crash: 1929."
1,786 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 36.95
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This paper examines "The Great Crash: 1929," by John Kenneth Galbraith, and the reasons that it gives for the economic downfall of that period. The writer explains some of Galbraith's chief arguments, such as buying on margin and rampant speculation, the lack of responsibility among the higher institutions like the city banks and the Federal Reserve, and the disorganization and miscommunication between governing bodies. The writer concludes that Galbraith gives not only a historical representation of the era, but an almost behind the scenes look at how the higher up were affected as well.
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"What Galbraith attempts to do is paint the reader a picture of the entire era both before and after the historic crash. The writing itself flows very uniformly in regards to historical accuracy filled with milestone dates and stock exchange numbers, however, the real importance of the text deals with the overall theory or mental perception of both the higher acting officials all the way down to the average middleclass American worker. It is from this perspective that Galbraith's true message throughout the book will claim that the reason for the crash of 1929 is not necessarily the lack of willingness or financial backing of the people; as was the ending result, but rather the high levels of incompetence, denial, lacking responsibility, and speculation that will ultimately lead to the market's untimely demise."
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Lee Jacobs' Article: "John Kenneth Galbraith: The Position of Poverty", 2008.
This paper analyzes governmental influences on case poverty and insular poverty in Southeast Asia based on the article "John Kenneth Galbraith: The Position of Poverty" by Lee Jacobs.
940 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, APA, £ 21.95
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This study critically analyzes the idea of case poverty and insular ioverty in the article "John Kenneth Galbraith: The Position of Poverty" by Lee Jacobs. The paper explains that, by understanding the different types of poverty that keep many in the lower echelons of society, Galbraith positions that case poverty is a real concept in determining those that cannot function effectively within society. The paper further suggest that, by critical evaluating this concept, one can argue that Galbraith shows a great deal of insight into poverty, and what factors keep members of a population in the lower classes through government intervention. The paper then applies this concept to the poor in Southeast Asian countries.
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"These ironic features that are contained within economic barren areas reflect the way that governmental development influences what is to be deemed insular poverty. For instance, if a country like Cambodia has resources in rice, a lack of government development could make Cambodia behave within Galbraith's definition of insular poverty without geographical isolation. ...
"This factor further helps develop the terms of poverty that are imposed upon people, through the so-called insular factors of poverty."
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John Kenneth Galbraith's 'The Great Crash: 1929', 2001.
This paper analyzes John Kenneth Galbraith's book 'The Great Crash: 1929' and its economic aspects.
775 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 17.95
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This paper studies the possible reasons for the stock market crash in 1929. It examines John Kenneth Galbraith's book 'The Great Crash: 1929' which claims that the reason for the Great Crash was the over-zealousness and miscalculations of financial analysts and brokers at the time. It discusses how the basis economic theories were suddenly irrelevant afterwards. Finally, it blames the stock market crash on investors that did not want to see the reality.
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"John Kenneth Galbraith's book "The Great Crash: 1929 claims that the depression of 1929 was a direct result of the miscalculations of the financial analysts and the other brokers which caused the crash of the stocks. He states that these actors of the economic field had a direct involvement in the stock market and had become too greedy to actually see what was happening to the market around them---too greedy to actually fear the recuperation?s of what was easily predictable as the downfall."
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John Kenneth Galbraith?s ?The Affluent Society?, 2002.
This paper discusses the economic theories of John Kenneth Galbraith in his book ?The Affluent Society?, which made him famous.
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper explains that when Galbraith wrote ?The Affluent Society?, in 1958, he spotted problems in American society that were caused, not by the drive that accompanies the desire to escape from need, but by the blindness that results from excessive gain. This paper points out that Galbraith promoted a version of Keynes' idea that when economic growth is inadequate, "state expenditure for useful purposes" (including a certain amount of deficit spending) was the prop the economy needed. The author states that, despite the immense popularity of the book, now in its fourth edition, Galbraith?s ideas were little heeded in practical terms.
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Keynes' Notion of Increasing Production
Keynes and State Spending
Biography
History of the Book
Galbraith's Central Argument
Pessimism of the Central Tradition
Accommodating Inequality and Insecurity
Making Increased Production the Only Economic Good
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"Galbraith constructed his argument in four stages. First, he demonstrated that postwar thought about the economy depended on the essential pessimism inherited from the central tradition in economics stretching back to Ricardo in the early nineteenth century. Second, he showed how an implicit accommodation to affluence was constructed. Third, he examined how the pessimistic assumption that poverty was inevitable, "which stemmed from a world where nearly all were poor," was institutionalized in affluent America. Finally, he attempted to show how, once one escaped the grip of the conventional wisdom that inequality and economic insecurity are inevitable, it was possible to imagine alternative courses of action."
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"The Great Crash: 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1993.
A critical review of the work on the stock market collapse and the possibility of a repeat crash.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, £ 29.95
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"John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Great Crash: 1929, writes that his book has limitations: "The task of this book . . . is only to tell what happened in 1929. It is not to tell whether or when the misfortunes of 1929 will recur" (190). In the same passage, however, Galbraith makes clear the moral lesson of 1929 and of his book: "It is that very specific and personal misfortune awaits those who presume to believe that the future is revealed to them" (190). However, after having set forth these limitations, Galbraith goes on to speculate on the future:
. . . The chances for a recurrence of a speculative orgy are rather good. No one can doubt that the American people remain susceptible to the speculative mood---to the conviction that enterprise can be attended by unlimited rewards in which they..."
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"The Affluent Society" by John Kenneth Galbraith, 2000.
A review of the work on the economic theory behind the negative aspects of post-WWII American affluence.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, £ 34.95
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"On the first page of his 1958 bestseller, The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that "wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" (1). What he tried to point out was that, although getting gain had been a primary pursuit of Americans long before 1958, endless increases in production--even with an increasing ability to take a guiding hand in manufacturing demand--had become the key to contemporary affluence. And, while this had been producing ever-greater gain for some, it was also engendering severe want and other social problems at a correspondingly rapid rate. Those whose primary goal is the getting of gain had been proceeding without regard for the way this shaped society. And, wrapped up in increasing gain, these Americans seemed incapable of appreciating that want in others would eventually reach critical mass and prove to work..."
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"The Culture Of Contentment" ( John Kenneth Galbraith ), 1999.
A critical review of this work on the need for more government involvement in the economy to right socioeconomic injustice.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, £ 45.95
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According to high school civics classes, we live in a democratic society based on one person one vote. Even when the fact that this is a representative democracy where each citizen votes for another to represent his or her interests in legislatures, the concept remains that each of us has a voice in the political system.
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According to high school civics classes, we live in a democratic society based on one person one vote. Even when the fact that this is a representative democracy where each citizen votes for another to represent his or her interests in legislatures, the concept remains that each of us has a voice in the political system. The low number of eligible voters who actually participate in the process has brought some to question the validity of this approach, however, and one author, John Kenneth Galbraith, has suggested that the lack of participation in government has serious consequences for the long-term viability of the United States from both an economic and political perspective, and that it encouraged and continues to encourage the emergence and maintenance of a permanent underclass in American society."
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John Kenneth Galbraith & Capitalism In U.S., 1989.
Examines economist's theories on the affluent state; criticisms; compared to Adam Smith, Malthus, Milton Friedman; political aspects; production; poverty and industrial power.
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" The French political scientist, Alex deToqueville, visited the United States almost 200 hundred years ago for the rare opportunity of examining a foundling nation in an isolated system. America had adopted a political system greatly influenced by European philosophical thought and which could be nurtured free of outside factors like invasion or warfare. Similarly, the economics of free trade were implemented in this isolated system, which developed into America's unique form of capitalism. In The Affluent Society (1958), John Kenneth Galbraith examines American capitalism not only though current (...)"
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"The Great Crash 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith, 2000.
A review of the work on the causes, effects and economic lessons of stock market crash.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 19.95
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"In his book The Great Crash 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith, a leading economist, examines the meaning of the stock market crash of 1929 which has become a persistent fear for Wall Street ever since. Recent downturns in the market were compared to the Great Crash, for instance, and many were watching to see if the protections put in place to stop this kind of crash would work and prevent a repeat. They did seem to work, and many believe that a crash such as occurred in 1929 is simply impossible given the current structure of the market and of governmental and other controls. Galbraith finds that what happened in 1929 was not an isolated action, however, and that earlier in history there had been other speculative splurges, beginning in 1637 when Dutch speculators invested in tulip bulbs. Galbraith also notes that we are now going through a similar period, but he makes no..."
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"The Good Society: A Humane Agenda", 2005.
This paper reviews John Kenneth Galbraith's history of economics "The Good Society: A Humane Agenda", which he wrote when he was nearly ninety years of age.
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This paper explains that, knowing the cruelties man has inflicted during this century, much of it due to economic reasons, the reader of John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Good Society: A Humane Agenda" wonders whether the concept of a "good society" was a tongue-in-cheek effort to prove to his readers that this "good society" through a higher standard of life is an unattainable goal. The author points out that this book, which demonstrates the demise of Keynesian economics, is more a morality tale than a book on economics. The paper relates that the difficult task Galbreath sets for himself is to differentiate between what is "perfect" and "ideal" and what is achievable, or in his terms---between the "agreeable irrelevant" and the "ultimately possible", which may well contradict each other.
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"It is idealistic, of course, for anyone trained in economics to proclaim, as Galbreath does, that a good society must provide an upward chance for all, and a reliable economy to sustain employment. This would obviate the "business cycle" of inflation, stagflation, even minor recession. He is, one might comment, a little simplistic when he states the over-obvious: that a steady flow of demand is a vital factor in keeping business going. Of course, if stores sell products customers want, or manufacturers produce goods that are so reasonable to purchase, then the business cycle is on the upswing. What is missing in this idea of a "steady flow" is that manufacturers, given more and improved technology, can now produce higher quality goods more rapidly with robotics and computers that require little or no human assistance, other than supervision. Thus, economics creates the goods at the expense of employment. It is called "downsizing", a word that brings terror to workers and managers alike."
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Historical Texts, 2007.
This paper contrasts four different historical texts: Donald Spivey's "Schooling for a New Slavery", Ellen Schrecker's "The Age of McCarthyism", John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Great Crash of 1929" and Charles Fishman's "The Wal-Mart Effect".
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This paper explains that both Donald Spivey's "Schooling for a New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915" and Ellen Schrecker's "The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents"are cultural critiques of apparently benevolent ideologies that harmed rather than helped the Americans they were designed to protect. The author points out that these history texts use different presentational techniques possibly because McCarthyism was a top-down phenomenon while racism has been rife within American society since its inception. The paper relates that John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Great Crash of 1929" describes how rampant speculation in the stock market caused the destruction of the American economy and that Charles Fishman's "The Wal-Mart Effect". speculates that exploitation used as an economic tool by a single large company has caused cheaper goods but a less ethical society.
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"After the end of slavery, Blacks were supposed to become free and equal citizens with Whites under the law. Instead, despite the previous centuries of oppression that were supposed to be undone by legal enfranchisement of Blacks, most Blacks were denied their rights of civic participation, and their education was limited to manual, rather than intellectual pursuits. This is why Spivey's book ultimately emerges as the more frightening of the two scenarios--while McCarthyism lasted for a relatively short period of time, the racism chronicled by Spivey and the attitudes that hampered Black progress still exist today."
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Kenneth Bancroft Clark, 2008.
A review of the efforts of Kenneth Bancroft Clark in combating racial segregation.
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The paper discusses the life of psychologist Kenneth Bancroft Clark who created a theory that would help revolutionize the social dynamics in America. The paper notes that Clark was a strong advocate of desegregation and dedicated his life to studying the ill effects of racial segregation.
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"Kenneth B. Clark's contribution to the realization of an equal society did not stop there. He continued to gather data through research towards the implementation of desegregation in schools as well as other institutions. Furthermore, he advocated that no person should be judged according to the color of his skin alone. This was his message he attempted to broadcast to black and white audiences, academes, and government leaders. As a member of New York State's Board of Regents between 1966 and1975, New York's highest educational authority, he pushed state and local education authorities to desegregate public schools, as well as invoking integration in state colleges. Kenneth Clark also acted as an adviser to local and national policy makers."
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Kenneth Branagh's "Othello", 2002.
Analysis of the film version of "Othello" by Kenneth Branagh, with an emphasis on his interpretation of Iago.
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This paper discusses how Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of the character, Iago, from Shakespeare's "Othello" differs from Shakespeare's original intention. The paper contrasts Branagh's portrayal of Iago as one who is fierce, dead serious and even brooding, with Shakespeare's Iago as one who is less serious and more intent on enjoying the hunt of Othello. The paper also discusses the movie version's emphasis on providing a motive for Iago's vengeance, while Shakespeare actually provides very little explanation of Iago's motivation.
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"Kenneth Branagh?s interpretation of Iago lends a very different feel to the text than one might get simply by reading it. His portrayal of Iago is typically dead serious. There seems to be no smirk, no joy, in his undoing of Othello, rather he seems almost sulky, almost duty bound. Even if, in the action of the movie, he momentarily assumes a smile, in soliloquy that smile is immediately swept away to a sullen grimace. This frowning Iago is an unusual interpretation of Shakespeare?s most notorious villain. From the text, one might assume that Iago enjoys the chase, enjoys the hunt of Othello, but the movie depicts it very much as a fierce competition. Part of this can be seen in the chessboard theme that runs throughout the movie?Iago?s attempt to undo Othello is not some freewheeling intellectual exercise, but a disciplined competition."
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