In the canon
The Affluent Society
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1958
- Pages
- Pages 320
An economist argues that a nation grown rich in private goods still starves its schools and roads, and warns that advertising manufactures wants that consumption alone can never truly satisfy.
Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
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