The New Industrial State

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The New Industrial State

by John Kenneth Galbraith

Other books by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book) by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith

The Great Crash 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

War and Peace (Book)
by Leo Tolstoy

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson