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The Affluent Society
by Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1978. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the Author. Publisher's full blue leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in the remainder, gilt decoration and borders on covers, a.e.g., moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Includes "Notes From the Editors" pamphlet laid in. . The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Some mild sunning around edges of endpapers (as usual), else as new. NEAR FINE . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xi), 384 pp. Signed by Author .
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
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12778
- Title
- The Affluent Society
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- History;, Industry;, Economics;, signed books;, Fine Bindings;, Franklin Library;, John Kenneth Galbraith;
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