Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Title: The Affluent Society Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (The Riverside Press, Massachusetts) Year: 1958 (11th printing) Format: Hardcover Condition: Good (dust jacket worn) Weight: 598 g Dimensions: 21 × 14 × 3.5 cm
This book is widely regarded as one of the most influential works of twentieth-century economic thought. The Affluent Society challenges the assumption that increased production and consumption necessarily lead to social well-being. This is a relevant book for our own age, and unlike many economic studies, this is not too dry nor unnecessarily complicated.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his era, argues that modern economies often prioritize private wealth while neglecting public goods such as education, infrastructure, and environmental quality.
Published in 1958, this landmark book helped reshape debates about consumerism, advertising, and economic policy in postwar North America. Galbraith’s clear, persuasive prose made complex economic ideas accessible to a broad audience and established the book as a cornerstone of modern political economy.
This copy is an elegant 11th printing of the original Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition, produced at The Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features a buckram binding and retains its original dust jacket, which shows visible wear consistent with age. The book itself is in good condition with clean unmarked pages.
