Il bestseller internazionale di John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society, è un attacco spiritoso, aggraziato e devastante ad alcuni dei nostri miti economici più amati. Tanto attuale oggi quanto quando fu pubblicato per la prima volta oltre quarant'anni fa, questa nuova edizione aggiornata del classico testo di Galbraith sull'''economia dell'abbondanza'' mette a nudo i pericoli dell'autocompiacimento individuale e sociale sulla disuguaglianza economica. Perché adorare il lavoro e la produttività se molti dei beni che produciamo sono superflui, ''bisogni'' artificiali creati dalla pubblicità ad alta pressione? Perché lesinare la spesa per opere pubbliche vitali ignorando sprechi e stravaganze nel settore privato dell'economia? L'economia classica è nata in un mondo duro di povertà di massa e ci ha lasciato con una serie di preconcetti mal adattati alle realtà della nostra epoca più ricca. E così, troppo spesso, ''gli insipidi guidano gli insipidi''. I nostri problemi insoliti necessitano di un nuovo approccio e l'accoglienza riservata a questo famoso libro ha dimostrato il valore delle sue idee fresche e vivaci. ''Una sfida avvincente al pensiero convenzionale'' The New York Times ''Si dimostra un uomo veramente sensibile e civile, le cui idee sono radicate nella cultura comune dei due continenti e possono fungere da collegamento tra di essi; il suo libro è di fondamentale importanza per entrambi'' The Times Literary Supplement John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) è stato un economista canadese-americano. Keynesiano e istituzionalista, Galbraith è stato uno dei principali sostenitori del liberalismo e del progressismo americano del XX secolo. Galbraith è stato autore di 30 libri, tra cui The Economics of Innocent Fraud, The Great Crash: 1929 e A History of Economics.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, born in 1908, was one of the twentieth century's most influential economists. He produced dozens of books and hundreds of articles on economics, politics, foreign policy and the arts, his most famous including the popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years and was also active in politics, serving as an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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