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The Affluent Society
The Affluent Society
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
By the writer of How To Get Out of Vietnam, How to Control the Military, Who Needs the Democrats, The Triumph, The McLandress Dimension, The Scotch, Ambassador's Journal, The Liberal Hour and The New Industrial State, originally published in 1958. "Upon publication, this revolutionary study of the economics of opulence became one of the most so...  more »
ISBN: 249031
Publication Date: 1969
Pages: 287
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Publisher: Mentor
Book Type: Paperback
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With his customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world - and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacency about economic inequality.


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