The Affluent Society / Edition 40

The Affluent Society / Edition 40

by John Kenneth Galbraith
ISBN-10:
0395925002
ISBN-13:
9780395925003
Pub. Date:
10/28/1998
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-10:
0395925002
ISBN-13:
9780395925003
Pub. Date:
10/28/1998
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Affluent Society / Edition 40

The Affluent Society / Edition 40

by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780395925003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 10/28/1998
Edition description: Anniversary
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 101,605
Product dimensions: 5.34(w) x 8.16(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a critically acclaimed author and one of America's foremost economists. His most famous works include The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. Galbraith was the receipient of the Order of Canada and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he was twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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