John Kenneth Galbraith - one of the century's most revered and reviled economists - explores the history and consequences of eighty years of changing economic fashion, policy and reality around the world. With the sharpness and clairty that have marked his writing for thirty books, this is the crowning achievement ofGalbraith's remarkable career, an extensive and accessible view of twentieth-century economic and political hisotry that will be read and referred to for years to come.