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Galbraith also recognizes human weakness, differences in ability and motivation, and the formidable obstacles facing those who challenge the status quo. No one else explains the interplay of economic and political forces with Galbraiths exquisite clarity.
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Welfare economics, Income distribution, Social justice, Consumption (Economics) , Individualism.
publication date
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1996
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HB846.G35 1996eb
ddc
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330.12/6
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Welfare economics, Income distribution, Social justice, Consumption (Economics) , Individualism.
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The Good Society
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BOOKS BY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
A Theory of Price Control
The Great Crash, 1929
The Affluent Society
The Scotch
The New Industrial State
The Triumph
Indian Painting (with Mohinder Singh Rondhawa)
Ambassador's Journal
Economics and the Public Purpose
Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went
Annals of an Abiding Liberal
A Life in Our Times
The Anatomy of Power
A View from the Stands
Economics in Perspective: A Critical History
A Tenured Professor
The Culture of Contentment
A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View
The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
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The Good Society
The Humane Agenda
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Copyright 1996 by John Kenneth Galbraith All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Galbraith, John Kenneth, date. The good society: the humane dimension/ John Kenneth Galbraith p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-395-71328-5 1. Welfare economics. 2. Income distribution. 3. Social justice. 4. Consumption (Economics) 5. Individualism. I. Title HB846.G35 1996 96-983 330.12'6 dc20 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
Book design by Robert Overholtzer
QUM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Acknowledgments
My first word of thanks goes to the Deutsche Evangelische Kirche (the biyearly meeting of the German Evangelical Church), which in the early summer of 1993 gathered the many thousands in Munich and asked me to speak on the good society. This started a current of thought and effort that I then pursued, as other obligations allowed, for the next two years, strengthened, as I later tell, by recent political developments and deviance in the United States and elsewhere.
The Good Society has been used as a title on various works before, and with no slight popular effect on a treatise by Walter Lippmann in 1937. There was no search for imitative distinction here. The Good Society merely expresses with the greatest clarity my intention in this exercise.
As ever, I thank my Harvard colleagues with whom I have discussed these matters and my son James Galbraith, professor at the University of Texas, who has given me access to his excellent computer bank. Andrea Williams, my friend and collaborator for thirty-seven years, has, as before, brought to bear her editorial skills, her good humor
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and a certain patient persistence developed over the decades so that my English prose does not arouse the concern or the compassion of my critics. To Andrea, truly my thanks. Brooke Palmer, my very effective administrative assistant, has with tact and skill fended off or absorbed competing claims on my time, making it possible for me to write and, I trust, to think. I have a special word for my publisher, Houghton Mifflin Company, with whom I have also had a friendly association for almost half a century. Rarely have author and publisher combined so agreeably for so long.
Finally, and certainly not least, Catherine Atwater Galbraith has, as so often, been my beloved wholly tolerant supporter in the writing of this book. It was fitting that my original inspiration should have occurred in Munich for it was there as a graduate student that she had a significant part of her own scholarly career. Ever since a sparkling day in the autumn of 1937, she has watched over all my efforts with patience, encouragement and loving tolerance. To Kitty especially, my thanks and my love.
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS NOVEMBER 1995
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