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Author | : John Kenneth Galbraith |
Publisher | : Signet |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1963-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780451621863 |
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Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in this book) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has not been so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The Affluent Society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Lawrence Black |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351959174 |
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During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite the recognition that Britain had moved away from an era of rationing and scarcity, to a new age of choice and plenty, there was simultaneously a parallel feeling that the nation was in decline and being economically outstripped by its international competitors. Whilst the study of Britain's postwar history is a well-trodden path, and the paradox of absolute growth versus relative decline much debated, it is here approached in a fresh and rewarding way. Rather than highlighting economic and industrial 'decline', this volume emphasizes the tremendous impact of rising affluence and consumerism on British society. It explores various expressions of affluence: new consumer goods; shifting social and cultural values; changes in popular expectations of policy; shifting popular political behaviour; changing attitudes of politicians towards the electorate; and the representation of affluence in popular culture and advertising. By focusing on the widespread cultural consequences of increasing levels of consumerism, emphasizing growth over decline and recognizing the rising standards of living enjoyed by most Britons, a new and intriguing window is opened on the complexities of this 'golden age'. Contrasting growing consumer expectations and demands against the anxieties of politicians and economists, this book offers all students of the period a new perspective from which to view post-imperial Britain and to question many conventional historical assumptions.
Author | : John Kenneth Galbraith |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780395925003 |
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On the economics of abundance
Author | : Mike Berry |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0191510033 |
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This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008. Each chapter takes a major theme of Galbraith's book, distils his arguments, and then discusses to what extent they cast light on current developments, both in developed economies and in the economics discipline. The themes include: inequality, insecurity, inflation, debt, consumer behaviour, financialization, the economic role of government ('social balance'), the power of ideas, the role of power in the economy, and the nature of the good society. It considers the current problems of capitalism and the huge challenges facing democratic governments in tackling them. Written in non-technical language, this book is accessible to students of economics and the social sciences as well as to those who would have read The Affluent Society and the general reader interested in contemporary affairs and public policy.
Author | : Leonard Nevarez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-03-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136817476 |
Download Pursuing Quality of Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. But how does the idea of quality of life envision the greater good, and what gets lost as a result? This book provides the critical framework for understanding the idea’s contexts and tensions that are conspicuously missing in popular discussions, professional activities, and scholarly research on quality of life. With multiple case studies taken across North America and Europe, it provides a sociological perspective on the contradictory ways we talk about and pursue quality of life in relation to technology, consumerism, family, work, public space, rural ways of life, and ultimately the final years of life. Drawing on contemporary and classical social theory, it provides an incisive account of the historical shifts in developed societies over the last half-century that have transformed our views and pursuits of quality of life. Originally a promise to undertake collective effort and pursue social justice at a moment of unprecedented opportunity, quality of life now enshrines a solipsistic ideal with which to accommodate the storms of market forces and political failure.
Author | : Marva J. Dawn |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003-03-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1611644445 |
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In this prophetic call to faithful Christian living, Marva Dawn identifies the epidemic socio-cultural attitudes that destroy hope in our modern lives. Because affluent persons don't know what to value--how to choose what's important and weed out the rest--we remain dissatisfied with what we have and are compelled to want more. Dawn demonstrates, however, how Christians can organize their lives to live in ways that allow them to love God and neighbor and, in the process, alleviate the despair in their lives and in the lives of others in the world.
Author | : Serge Latouche |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781856491723 |
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Author | : Michael Harrington |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1997-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 068482678X |
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Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.
Author | : John Kenneth Galbraith |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2015-04-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1400873185 |
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With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies. Advertising is the means by which these companies manage demand and create consumer "need" where none previously existed. Multinational corporations are the continuation of this power system on an international level. The goal of these companies is not the betterment of society, but immortality through an uninterrupted stream of earnings. First published in 1967, The New Industrial State continues to resonate today.
Author | : Timo Vihavainen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2015-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004303979 |
Download Communism and Consumerism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Consumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but it also considers pre-WWII and even pre-revolutionary times.The book consists of articles, which survey the longue durée of Russian and Soviet consumer attitudes, Soviet ideology of consumption as indicated in texts concerning fashion, the world of Soviet fashion planning and the survival strategies of the Soviet consumer complaining against sub-standard goods and services in a command economy. There's also a case study concerning the uses of concepts with anti-consumerist content. Contributors include: Lena Bogdanova, Olga Gurova, Timo Vihavainen and Larissa Zakharova.