The Affluent Society
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 368pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "In this important book a literate and versatile economist closely scrutinizes current ideas and attitudes in economics. He shows that they were worked out for a world far different from our own. This was a world of bleak poverty and one in which, except for a favored few, any other condition was unimaginable. Professor Galbraith shows how imperfectly and reluctantly the ideas appropriate to this world have been modified for application to the very different world--The Affluent Society--in which we live." Book very good: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, offset to endpapers and paste downs, text clean, binding tight. / DJ fair: small closed tears, chipping with loss, clipped. Item #1288
#01356.
Price: $18.00