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Those Americans who do still make it to Europe are largely the affluent. Indeed, the European travel industry finds some comfort in the fact that Americans are still the biggest spenders around; in France they shell out an average $63 a day, v. $26 for the Germans.* But almost everywhere Yankee tourists have been learning home truths abroad: they have been buying less, staying at cheaper hotels, taking subways and buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken...
...years ago?at least in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe and Japan ?this modern capitalism seemed to be on the verge of producing the permanently affluent society. Keynesian policies had kept recessions brief, mild and infrequent; the end of World War II opened the longest period of sustained growth ever. American Economist George Stigler announced that "economics is finally at the threshold of its Golden Age?nay, we already have one foot through the door...
...root problem is that everybody wants more. Even in prosperous times, the demands of labor for ever higher wages, of generals and admirals for increasingly sophisticated weapons, and the less affluent for expanded government social services always add up to more than the economy can produce at stable prices. Rather than say no to the demands of any vocal constituency, democratic governments too often find it easier to run huge budget deficits, thus fueling inflation...
...where he likes to record, and another sort of ranch in Scottsdale, Ariz. There he concentrates on his tennis, a game chubby little boys can feel ridiculous playing but that the superstar plays with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec...
...writing in New Delhi as he is to be lecturing in Cambridge. Active in liberal politics, he introduced J.F.K. to Harvard intellectuals (and became J.F.K.'s Ambassador to India). In addition, Galbraith wrote bestsellers in which he chided capitalism and the American compulsion to produce ever more (The Affluent Society in 1958, The New Industrial State in 1967, and Public Purpose in 1973). He spent the past year finishing a new book on the history of money, while traveling round the world filming a series on the history of economics...