The Affluent Society: Updated With A New Introduction By Author John Kenneth Galbraith Penguin Books Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία Economics Business & Finance

John Kenneth Galbraith\ S International Bestseller The Affluent Society Is A Witty Graceful And Devastating Attack On Some Of Our Most Cherished Economic Myths As Relevant Today When It Was First Published Over Forty Years Ago This Newly Updated Edition Classic Text \ Economics Abundance\ Lays Bare Hazards Individual Social Complacency About Inequality Why Worship Work Productivity If Many Goods We Produce Are Superfluous - Artificial Needs\ Created By High-Pressure Advertising? Begrudge Expenditure Vital Public Works While Ignoring Waste Extravagance In Private Sector Economy? Classical Born Harsh World Mass Poverty Has Left Us With Set Preconceptions Ill-Adapted To Realities Own Richer Age So Too Often Bland Lead Bland\ Unfamiliar Problems Need New Approach Reception Given Famous Book Shown Value Its Fresh Lively Ideas Compelling Challenge Conventional Thought\ York Times He Shows Himself Truly Sensitive Civilized Man Whose Grounded Common Culture Two Continents May Serve Link Between Them His Foremost Importance For Both\ Literary Supplement Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American Economist Keynesian An Institutionalist Leading Proponent 20Th-Century American Liberalism Progressivism Author 30 Books Including Innocent Fraud Great Crash: 1929 History Σελίδες: 288 Διαστάσεις: 13X13Cm