The good society : the humane agenda / John Kenneth Galbraith.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996Description: vii, 152 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0395859980
- 9780395859988
- 1856195090
- 9781856195096
- 330.01 20
- HB846 .G35 1997
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 330.126 GAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A136864B |
Includes index.
1. The Good Society --- 2. The Wider Screen --- 3. The Age of Practical Judgment --- 4. The Social Foundation --- 5. The Good Economy --- 6. Inflation --- 7. The Deficit --- 8. The Distribution of Income and Power --- 9. . The Decisive Role of Education --- 10. Regulation : The Basic Principles --- 11. The Environment --- 12. Migration --- 13. The Autonomous Military Power --- 14. The Bureaucratic Syndrome --- 15. Foreign Policy The Economic and Social Dimension --- 16. The Poor of the Planet I: The Shaping History --- 17. The Poor of the Planet II: What the Good Society Must Do --- 18. The Political Context.
Galbraith, at 90 years of age, has distilled a lifetime of observation, study and reflection into an apology for treating the poor with compassion, and maintaining economic opportunity, by shifting our emphasis away from certain unhelpful beliefs.
.b10523376 WorldCat_3_8_2017
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