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The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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” 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.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: October 15, 1998

ISBN: 0395925002

ISBN 13: 9780395925003

The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

4/5 ( ratings)

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” 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.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mariner Books

Release: October 15, 1998

ISBN: 0395925002

ISBN 13: 9780395925003

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