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...Affluent Society, Galbraith...
...Theory of Price Controls, Economics and the Art of Controversy, American Capitalism, and The Great Crash 1929--reveal a broad interest in current social and economic issues and a highly imaginative approach. The Affluent Society, his latest, has been an amazing success since its publication in May. He finished this book last September and embodied the data in his Soc Sci 134 lectures. This year Galbraith is interested in the theory of organization, is exploring the subject in his Soc Sci lectures, and may eventually come up with another book, but "a technical book, definitely not a best-seller...
...Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith...
...economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...
...statistically catastrophic, the President's Fabian tactics may have some rationale. But the refusal to let the serious unemployment shake any of his economic convictions can have far more damaging effects. The recession, representing not a "loss of confidence," but a real and recurrent problem in an "affluent society," demands a reassessment of some of the President's cherished economic slogans...