TY - BOOK AU - Galbraith,John Kenneth TI - The good society: the humane agenda SN - 0395859980 AV - HB846 .G35 1997 U1 - 330.01 20 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - Economic policy KW - Individualism KW - Welfare economics KW - Income distribution KW - Social justice KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Economics N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -