Author(s): John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics

Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. A lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power and the most widely read economist of the twentieth century, the legendary Harvard professor J. K. Galbraith has been published by Penguin for more than forty years. His latest book, The Economics of Innocent Fraud, published here in paperback for the first time, is a vigorous polemic that reveals the unacknowledged grip of the private sector on public life and considers our increasing tendency to accept blindly legal, legitimate, 'innocent' fraud.