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This, from our local bookstore: “John Kenneth Galbraith’s seminal
work THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
had a similar galvanizing effect on the nation. Published in 1958, it
influenced a generation of activists and helped to set the agenda for the
Kennedy-Johnson years. Galbraith was Professor of Economics at Harvard for much
of his life, but his view of economics made room for morality and political
action. He served Kennedy as ambassador to India and continued to stay active
in liberal politics. He continued to write about the need to balance
free-market capitalism with government policy in 1973’s Economics and the Public Purpose. In
2004 Richard Parker published a good biography of Galbraith. “You
may want to reread The Affluent Society;
you will discover that it is all too applicable to today’s social and
political climate.” |
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