The Affluent Society

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 276 pagina's
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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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THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY

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The author of American Capitalism and The Great Crash, 1929 attempts here to demonstrate that the economic ideas which guide our society — an affluent society — are not only rooted in the past but ... Volledige review lezen

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Inhoudsopgave

The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom
6
Economics and the Tradition of Despair
18
The Uncertain Reassurance
29
The American Mood
43
The Marxian Pall
59
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68
Economic Security
81
The Paramount Position of Production
99
Inflation
154
The Monetary Illusion
166
Production and Price Stability
177
The Theory of Social Balance
186
The Investment Balance
200
The Transition
209
The Divorce of Production from Security
217
The Redress of Balance
223

The Imperatives of Consumer Demand
114
The Dependence Effect
124
The Vested Interest in Output
132
The Bill Collector Cometh
143
The Position of Poverty
234
Labor Leisure and the New Class
243
On Security and Survival
255
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The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
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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 recipient 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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TitelThe Affluent Society
Mariner Books
AuteurJohn Kenneth Galbraith
Editiegeannoteerd
UitgeverHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998
ISBN0395925002, 9780395925003
Lengte276 pagina's
  
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