John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Affluent Society explores affluence in America. He challenges many prevailing views on economics including economic security and production, as well as marginal utility and consumer demand.
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 Affluent Society John Kenneth Galbraith . 1958. Contents. Introduction to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition [>] 1. The Affluent Society [>] 2. The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom [>] 3. Economics and the Tradition of Despair [>] 4. The Uncertain Reassurance [>] 5..
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