The Age of Uncertainty
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine / Very Good ++. Item #5263
ISBN: 0395249007
A very handsome signed First Edition, First Printing John Kenneth Galbraith title. Book in near fine condition with very faint fading along top edge of cloth and extremely faint rubbing along lower outer corners. Bound in clean blue cloth with bright gilt lettering, spine show no wear. Author inscription across front free end paper, "To Gene Crimson", dated "1987". Top edges of pages appear to have decorative speckles of light color. Numerous color and black and white plates throughout book in clear and beautiful condition. Extensive index at end of book accommodates the depth of this notable volume. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. Light frosting on front and rear wrapper with minor creasing along extremities. Color photograph of author on front wrapper still bright and clean. Title spine shows slight sunning though still clear. Price clipped in upper right corner of front flap, price of "$17.95" intact in lower right corner. In general a well preserved dust jacket in very good condition. A handsome copy of John Kenneth Galbraith's best known books.
In a PBS interview (conducted September 28th, 2000) titled "Depression-Era Economics: Looking for a Remedy," Galbraith explores his role as an economist during the bleakness of the Great Depression:
"...A university was in many ways a poor way to see that, because you were surrounded by people with secure income and a happy life, relatively speaking. But one couldn't go to the docks in San Francisco, one couldn't go to the farms, one couldn't go to the slums of Oakland without seeing how many people were on the edge of despair and how fortunate you were as compared with the ordinary citizen at the time. And that was, I hope, the factor that involved me more deeply in progressive economics....The diamond feature of those years, of that decade, [was] the sense that nothing was working. And those of us in universities -- I was then first at California and then at Harvard, having recently come from Canada -- had a special sense of responsibility, because our profession was economics. We were supposed to know not only what was wrong, but also what was right. But there was also a more important effect, that in a university, we were very comfortable; we weren't faced with unemployment. And therefore, if we had any sense of compassion, which I hope we did, we were concerned with what others were suffering; that we were escaping."
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