Affluent Society（ISBN=9780395925003）

Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought." With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity. While "affluent society" and "conventional wisdom" (first used in this book) have entered the vernacular, the message of the book has not been so widely embraced--reason enough to rediscover The Affluent Society.

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Introduction to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition
1. The Affluent Society
2. The Concept of the Conventional Wisdom
3. Economics and the Tradition of Despair
4. The Uncertain Reassurance
5. The American Mood
6. The Marxian Pall
7. Inequality
8. Economic Security
9. The Paramount Position Of Production
10. The Imperatives of Consumer Demand
11. The Dependence Effect
12. The Vested Interest in Output
13. The Bill Collector Cometh
14. Inflation
15. The Monetary Illusion
16. Production and Price Stability
17. The Theory of Social Balance
18. The Investment Balance
19. The Transition
20. The Divorce of Production from Security
21. The Redress of Balance
22. The Position of Poverty
23. Labor, Leisure and the New Class
24. On Security and Survival
Afierword
 Index