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The Affluent Society

The Affluent Society

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The Affluent Society

by Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. 384 pages. Blue leather binding with impressed gilt decoration on boards and spine; all edges gilt; silk endpapers faded along edges; blue ribbon page marker. Signed by Galbraith on a preliminary blank page ahead of the half-title.. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Tooled Leather. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Synopsis

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
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Edition
Limited Edition
Publisher
The Franklin Library
Place of Publication
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Date Published
1978
Keywords
john kenneth galbraith economics business
Size
8vo

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