Description: Franklin Library leather edition of John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society," a Limited edition, one of the SIGNED 60 series, Personally signed by JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, signature protected by onion skin tissue paper, published in 1978. Bound in a royal blue leather, the book has gray moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edge--in near FINE condition. John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, who lived from 1908 – 2006, was a Canadian/American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics. Galbraith was a long-time HARVARD faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his most famous works was "The Affluent Society" in 1958. Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. He served as U.S. Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness made him, arguably, "the best-known economist in the world" during his lifetime. "Affluent Society" sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post-World War II United States was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and physical infrastructure, and perpetuating income disparity. Galbraith concluded: "To furnish a barren room is one thing. To continue to crowd in furniture until the foundation buckles is quite another. To have failed to solve the problem of producing goods would have been to continue man in his older and most grievous misfortune. . ." The book sparked much controversy and public discussion. It is widely remembered for Galbraith's popularizing the term "conventional wisdom." 384 pages, including an Index. I combine shipping in U.S.
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Binding: Leather
Signed: Yes
Publisher: Franklin Library SIGNED 60
Subject: Business
Year Printed: 1978
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition, Signed 60
Region: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
Personalized: Yes
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Economics and Affluence
