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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith's slim masterpiece on speculative manias from the Dutch tulip craze to the 1980s. His central insight - that financial euphoria is a permanent feature of human nature, not an aberration - is one every investor must absorb.
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The Affluent Society
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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith's landmark critique of the American obsession with private production while public goods are neglected. Introduced "conventional wisdom" into the language and remains a foundational challenge to mainstream economic thinking.
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The Great Crash 1929
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The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith's authoritative account of the 1929 stock market crash. Written with dry wit and forensic clarity, it remains the essential primer on speculative mania, the psychology of markets, and how financial excess destroys itself.
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The New Industrial State
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The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Galbraith's analysis of how large corporations, technology, and the state have fused into a new power structure that supersedes classical market economics. A controversial but prescient account of corporate power that reads more relevantly every decade.
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