The Essential Galbraith
The knock-out of Merrill Lynch this week provoked me to pick this book from my collection to surf through Galbraith's writings on the great crash 1929Interestingly, I stumbled upon his closing remarks of this 1999 lecture in LSE titled 'The Unfinished Business of the Century'. These two captions below are very significant to US and turn of events that will unfold in this century. With US elections around the corner, it needs to be seen how will the new US president overcome these challenges.
" I come to two pieces of the unfinished business of the century and millennium that have high visibility and urgency. The first is the very large number of the very poor even in the richest of countries and notably in the United States...."
" I come to two pieces of the unfinished business of the century and millennium that have high visibility and urgency. The first is the very large number of the very poor even in the richest of countries and notably in the United States...."
"There is one final piece of unfinished business. In the United States we have a rigorous control of action in our foreign policy not by thought but by acceptance of the past. This keeps us from accommodating what we do to the realities of the world scene."
