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Be carful about the conventional wisdom in all fields of human society.
评分Be carful about the conventional wisdom in all fields of human society.
评分富裕社会是假富裕,大多数消费都类似买五十个不同色号的口红。
评分Published in 1958, it contributed to the "war on poverty", being a disastrous government spending policy first brought on by Kennedy and Johnson. The policy brought on ruinous levels of debt and split the country into those who have jobs and those don't.
评分与其说是经济学还不如说是一个公共知识分子对当时社会问题、政府政策与大众福利、知识精英与公众认识等一系列问题的思考总集。加氏文笔相对晦涩,思维兜转,吸收非主流和早期制度经济学理论力图修补新古典和凯恩斯—后凯恩斯经济学的一系列假设体系,包括:消费与需求是人天性和幸福需要,群体与阶级主要以生产功能定义,而忽略社会对消费文化和大众心理的形塑,及消费与悠闲群体的生成;基于供求关系中稀缺状况和社会普遍贫困地位所推导的供求关系和曲线;科层化、大规模生产企业所形成的市场权力和控制机制,等等。对凯恩斯所倡导的适度通胀以促进充分就业和货币主义的控制货币供应以压制通胀均不赞成,认为应分类通胀的形成机制和影响。批评美国政府在公共福利和开支方面的低下,但后来促成了颇具争议的伟大社会项目和灭贫战争,变相促成滞胀。
John Kenneth "Ken" Galbraith, OC (/ɡælˈbreɪθ/ gal-brayth, October 15, 1908 – April 29, 2006) was a Canadian and, later, American economist, public official, and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, during which time Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward Post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics.[4] He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967).
Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His prodigious literary output and outspokenness made him, arguably, "the best-known economist in the world"[5] during his lifetime.[6] Galbraith was one of few recipients both of the Medal of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contribution to science. The government of France made him a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur.
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.
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