The Affluent Society

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 276 páginas
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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 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 ... Ler resenha completa

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The Affluent Society
1
The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom
6
Economics and the Tradition of Despair
18
The Uncertain Reassurance
29
The American Mood
41
The Marxian Pall
55
Inequality
66
Economic Security
81
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 Position of Poverty
234

The Paramount Position of Production
99
The Imperatives of Consumer Demand
114
The Dependence Effect
124
The Vested Interest in Output
132
The Bill Collector Cometh
143
Inflation
154
Labor Leisure and the New Class
243
On Security and Survival
255
Afterword
261
Index
265
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John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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TítuloThe Affluent Society
Mariner Books
AutorJohn Kenneth Galbraith
Ediçãocomentada
EditoraHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998
ISBN0395925002, 9780395925003
Num. págs.276 páginas
  
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