The Affluent Society Paperback - 1998
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Summary
John Kenneth Galbraith's classic investigation of private wealth and public poverty in postwar America
With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith gets at the heart of what economic security means in The Affluent Society. Warning against individual and societal complacence about economic inequity, he offers an economic model for investing in public wealth that challenges “conventional wisdom” (a phrase he coined that has since entered our vernacular) about the long-term value of a production-based economy and the true nature of poverty. Both politically divisive and remarkably prescient, The Affluent Society is as relevant today on the question of wealth in America as it was in 1958.
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- Title The Affluent Society
- Author John Kenneth Galbraith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 40 ANV SUB
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Business, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-10-15
- ISBN 9780395925003 / 0395925002
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.53 x 0.69 in (21.08 x 14.05 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Economic policy, United States - Economic conditions - 1945-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98046513
- Dewey Decimal Code 330.973
Media reviews
"With his customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of complacency about economic inequity." The New York Times
Citations
- Library Journal, 06/01/1999, Page 188
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