Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1978. Limited Signed Edition. Slight browning to both front and rear moire endpaper edges but o/w a tight solid sound beautiful unmarked copy. ; Blue leather, gilt dec. Covers, gilt dec. Spine with gilt lettering, raised bands spine, all page edges gilt, moire eps, attached ribbon place marker, index. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED by AUTHOR. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; Signed by Author .

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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: Old Editions Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5337
Title: The Affluent Society
Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
Edition: Limited Signed Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Franklin Library
Place of Publication: Franklin Center, PA
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: ECONOMICS, LIMITED, SIGNED, EDITION, FRANKLIN, PRESS
Bookseller catalogs: Literature / Novels;

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