Il grande crollo

أعتقد أنه كتاب يهم المتخصصين أكثر من القراء الغير متخصصين .. يركز الكتاب على أسباب الانهيار الاقتصادى والكساد الكبير الذى ساد أوروبا وأمريكا فى العام 1929 ولكن من وجهة نظر وتحليل خبراء سوق البورصة الأمريكية أو ما يعرف بالوول ستريت .. وعليه فأنا كقارئ يضع دائماً التوقعات العظيمة ويعول على الكتاب من م Leggi tutto

An angry god may have endowed capitalism with inherent contradictions. But at least as an afterthought he was kind enough to make social reform surprisingly consistent with improved operation of the system. John Kenneth Galbraith in The Great Crash 1929 (Page 192) This book can be seen as an example Leggi tutto

I read half of this book before taking it back to the library. It has some good observations, but I found A Nation in Torment by Edward Ellis to be a better book. I suspect the reason why most talk-up this book and Galbraith in general is that he served in the FDR administration, was educated at Har Leggi tutto

One of those great books by liberals that can't but reaffirm one's belief in the obvious rightness of Marxism (only jokingly nodded to here, but at least respected as a threat). It's genuinely *hilarious* and read in conjunction with any book about 2008 would be bound to forcibly march someone a few Leggi tutto

Dull and hard to read. Not recommended for anyone that isn’t native in English. What a disappointment!

J. K. Galbraith produced his short book on the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929 in late 1954 in an atmosphere that still recalled recent witch hunts over communism (a fact that will help an early twenty-first century reader with some of the few obscure political references). The current Penguin edit Leggi tutto