- Power (Social sciences), Control (psychology), Power (Psychology), Psychological Power
Discusses the many sources and instruments of power, and explains how power is utilized by organizations and businesses and in economics and political and military life.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 206
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Hamilton, Corgi
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780552124683
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John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics from an institutional perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjec
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