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...college students. A 1979 report from the Drug Enforcement Administration has the ring of prophecy: "If present trends go unchecked, a vast new youth market for the substance [cocaine] could be opened. High cost, rather than restricted availability, will remain the principal deterrent to regular use among less affluent persons...
Even in the most affluent segments of our society, breast feeding can be expected to reduce significantly serious infantile diarrhea, respiratory disease and allergy. Unfortunately, a large portion of the public still believes that proprietary formula combined with proper refrigeration, sterilization and other hygienic measures can safely replace human milk...
...Milton Friedman to Arthur Laffer, contorted the concept of greed into a good thing, Galbraith said no; greed exists, and will ensure the production of privately produced goods, but society needs a counterforce to the less noble parts of man's character--a democratically elected government. In The Affluent Society, Galbraith pointed out that mere production of goods was not enough; we, as a society, should be concerned with what we produced. We might be better off, in fact, with fewer consumer goods and more "public" goods that provide service...
Galbraith himself never wavered--and continues to stand firm--in his support of the liberal agenda established in the New Deal, and supported by his work on the economics. The author's many publications on economics and society--the best known are The Affluent Society (1958), The New Industrial State (1967) and Economics and the Public Purpose (1973)--understandably receive little attention in the memoirs; Galbraith does however, give valuable short summaries of the works. But, again, for all the campaign anecdotes and academic infighting, it is difficult to understand what drove this man in these admirably egalitarian crusades. That...
...resident spoke last week with corrupted theology but purity of spirit: "Everything improved here after his visit. He was a father to the people, a real god." But to liberated priests and nuns, to lay Catholics vexed over divorce and birth control, to political autocrats and to affluent, secularized Westerners, he has also been a bearer of razor-edged messages...