Franklin Library: SIGNED 60: JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH: ECONOMICS: AFFLUENT SOCIETY

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 royal blue leather, the book has gray moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edge--in near FINE condition---except for minor fading to moire silk. John Kenneth Galbraith, who lived from 1908 – 2006, was a Canadian/American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics. Galbraith was a long-time professor of economics at Harvard University. 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. "The Affluent Society," published in 1958, sought to 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. The book sparked much controversy and public discussion. It is widely remembered for Galbraith's popularizing the term "conventional wisdom." Combined shipping is available.

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