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The Affluent Society (1976)

The Affluent Society (1976)

John Kenneth Galbraith

Year: 1976
Authors: John Kenneth Galbraith
Publishers: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 328
Print type: BOOK

Description:

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,