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Galbraith ran price controls during WWII
and this influenced him from thereon. I think his idea of “balance”
was the controlled economy. He was wrong. Harry ********************************* 818 352-4141 ********************************* From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Lawrence de Bivort 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 “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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