The Affluent Society
by GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Hard Cover. Stated first printing. FINE BOOK IN VERY GOOD+, PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET WITH VERY MINOR WEAR AND NO SPINE FADING.
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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- Mark Post, Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18849
- Title
- The Affluent Society
- Author
- GALBRAITH, JOHN KENNETH
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1985
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Mark Post, Bookseller
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About Mark Post, Bookseller
Specializing in American, European, and Military History, and all sujects relating to Scotland. Also a large selection of uncommon first editions of literature, including historical and western fiction.
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