Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- John Kenneth Galbraith: economist with a public purpose -- The useful economist -- The making of a heterodox economist: the impact of Henry S.Dennison on the economic thought ofJohn Kenneth Galbraith -- Social capital and political economy: Galbraith on states and groups -- The role of the state in the good society -- FromVeblen to Galbraith: what is the essence of institutional economics? -- The virtues of their defects and the defects of their virtues: reflections on John Kenneth Galbraith and ThorsteinVeblen -- The economist and business -- Galbraith, uncertainty and the modern corporation -- Progress denied: the unravelling of the New Industrial State -- Galbraith, globalism and the good life: making the best of the capitalist predicament -- The New Deal and 'domesticated Keynesianism' in America -- Adam Smith on the mercantile system: the unnecessary loss of America? -- Index.