The Affluent SocietyIn this important book a literate and versatile economist closely scrutinizes current ideas and attitudes in economics. He shows that they were worked out for a world far different from our own. This was a world of bleak poverty and one in which, except for a favored few, any other condition was unimaginable. Professor Galbraith shows how imperfectly and reluctantly the ideas appropriate to this world have been modified for application to the very