The Affluent Society
by Galbraith, John Kenneth
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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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
- Wayward Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005598
- Title
- The Affluent Society
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Washington D.C;
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