The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the great economists of the New Deal era, writing The Affluent Society, which is all about the problems of the society where now there is much more plenty, but what makes life worth living has been eroded.

You can read The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, and he's very interested in this question.

I still like John Kenneth Galbraith The Affluent Society a lot in part for these reasons.

When Galbraith wrote that book The Affluent Society around 1950 it effectively warned that America was squandering its newfound wealth by manufacturing desire.

I'm always thrilled when a podcast gets back into The Affluent Society - I love John Kenneth Galbraith.

I still like John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society a lot in part for these reasons.

I still like John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society a lot in part for these reasons.

John Kenneth Galbraith, you know, a legendary liberal economist of that era, writes this famous book called The Affluent Society and talks about, you know, these people camping and eating their food out of plastic containers amidst all this trash.

John Kenneth Galbraith provided one plausible answer in the Affluent Society. In it he suggested that John Maynard Keynes had underestimated the degree to which we can manipulate it into seeing our relative wants as absolute needs, meaning stuff that's marginal to us, we can see them as absolute needs.

the nation's most famous economist later president John Kennedy's advisor John Kenneth Galbraith dubbed it the affluent society in a 1958 book that was both a cultural and a political sensation it sat on top of the bestseller list for six straight months

the affluent society in a 1958 book that was both a cultural and a political sensation it sat on top of the bestseller list for six straight months

And I think I was reminded of this recently when I read this classic work of economics called The Affluent Society. It's Kenneth Galbraith, I think that's the author.