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The Affluent Society

The Affluent Society

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The Affluent Society

by Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick-red cloth stamped in silver with spine titles blocked in black. Near Fine with light dimpling to spine, former owner name to front paste down and pages lightly toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with edge wear and light chipping, light soiling and light sunning to the spine panel. A much nicer copy than usually encountered.

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
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
140941852
Title
The Affluent Society
Author
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good+
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1958

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