John Kenneth Galbraith Intro (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. 63 pages; 8" square; full-page color ils by Duheme & b/w photos; pink & white cover; prev. owner's address label on first page; notation in ink on back flap of dust jacket. Jacqueline Duheme (illustrator). Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1961). 251pp + xi. VG/VG copy; dust jacket lightly edge worn with small chipped losses to front top spine corner and head of spine, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". vii, 368pp. Bound in gray leather over boards with decorative stamped gilt to covers. Five raised bands to spine with 6 gilt compartments. All-edges gilt. Orange silk moire endpapers. Slight evidence of a removed bookplate at front endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With gold silk bookmark sewn in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: John Kenneth Galbraith's classic investigation of private wealth and public poverty in postwar America. With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith gets at the heart of what economic security means in The Affluent Society. Warning against individual and societal complacence about economic inequity, he offers an economic model for investing in public wealth that challenges "conventional wisdom" (a phrase he coined that has since entered our vernacular) about the long-term value of a production-based economy and the true nature of poverty. Both politically divisive and remarkably prescient, The Affluent Society is as relevant today on the question of wealth in America as it was in 1958.(Publisher).…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Foxing on top text block edge. Few small open tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 11" X 7 1/4". xxxi, 294pp.; xi, 319pp. xi, 308pp. Volumes are bound in light brown cloth over boards with spines and covers stamped in decorative brown and gilt. Pages of all volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are firm, sound, and square. Complete with very presentable slipcase, with Folio Society bookplate laid in, this is a very attractive set of three volumes. This set is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. ABOUT THIS SET: Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics.(Publisher).…