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The economics of innocent fraud : truth for our time / John Kenneth Galbraith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporations--Corrupt practices.
- Corporations.
- Fraud.
- Political corruption.
- Truth.
- Social values.
- United States--Economic conditions--2001-2009.
- United States.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 62 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
- Summary:
- Galbraith looks at today's economy and America's military actions in Iraq and contends that we observe the current state of the nation in a cloud of myth, believing that stockholders and owners run our corporate world.
- Contents:
- Introduction and personal note
- The nature of innocent fraud
- The renaming of the system
- The economics of accommodation
- The specious world of work
- The corporation as bureaucracy
- The corporate power
- The myth of the two sectors
- The world of finance
- The elegant escape from reality
- The end to corporate innocence
- Foreign and military policy
- The last word.
- ISBN:
- 0618013245
- OCLC:
- 54006609
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