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The Affluent Society
by Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine. 368 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Landmark work on the American economy, reasoned and unpolitical, facing a future in pursuit of goods rather than investing in people. It is perhaps truer today than than the day published. Unclipped dust wrapper $5.00 price, pristine almost as new copy.
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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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24051
- Title
- The Affluent Society
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orange brown cloth, front cover lettered in silver, black spine label lettered in silver. Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Colonial; Military History; Economics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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