John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller "The Affluent Society" is a witty, graceful and devastating attack on some of our most cherished economic myths. As relevant today as when it was first published over forty years ago, this newly updated edition of Galbraith's classic text on the 'economics of abundance', lays bare the hazards of individual and social complacency about economic inequality. Why worship work and productivity if many of the goods we produce are superfluous - artificial 'needs' created by high-pressure advertising? Why begrudge expenditure on vital public works while ignoring waste and extravagance in the private sector of the economy? Classical economics was born in a harsh world of mass poverty, and has left us with a set of preconceptions ill-adapted to the realities of our own richer age. And so, too often, 'the bland lead the bland'. Our unfamiliar problems need a new approach, and the reception given to this famous book has shown the value of its fresh, lively ideas. "A compelling challenge to conventional thought". ("The New York Times"). "He shows himself a truly sensitive and civilized man, whose ideas are grounded in the common culture of the two continents, and may serve as a link between them; his book is of foremost importance for them both". ("The Times Literary Supplement"). John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a Canadian-American economist. A Keynesian and an institutionalist, Galbraith was a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. Galbraith was the author of 30 books, including "The Economics of Innocent Fraud", "The Great Crash: 1929", and "A History of Economics".

The Affluent Society

The purpose of this paper has been to highlight some Austrian contributions to the theory of the firm and to suggest directions for future research along the same lines. In particular, Rothbard's argument about the need for markets in intermediate goods, and how that places limits on the scale and scope of the organization, deserves further development. This may be a more fruitful exercise than some work in the alternative Austrian traditions.

/pdf/economic-calculation-and-the-limits-of-organization-4yw9kzv1q3.pdf

Economic Calculation and the Limits of Organization

This is a history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.

Europe since Napoleon

A new theory of guilds and european economic development

This article argues that British psychogeography is an arena of conflict between two important and unresolved strands within radicalism: the use of the past to critique industrial modernity and the suppression of nostalgia The article begins by outlining the emergence of nostalgia as a site of dilemma and creativity within political radicalism It is shown that as nostalgia became marginalized within mainstream radicalism it became available as a provocative resource for `counter-cultural' interventions The article then turns to how the dilemma of nostalgia is negotiated within two forms of contemporary British psychogeography, the travel narratives of Iain Sinclair and the activities of revolutionary psychogeographical groups Within Sinclair's travel books the modern landscape becomes a site of creative purgatory, a necessary violence that simultaneously anchors the writer in modernism while establishing marginal histories and spaces as expressions of cultural and social loss In revolutionary psychog

/pdf/the-dilemmas-of-radical-nostalgia-in-british-psychogeography-2bqm7lkrjg.pdf

The Dilemmas of Radical Nostalgia in British Psychogeography

The Development of Economic Doctrine

The socialist tradition, Moses to Lenin

/pdf/the-scottish-staple-at-veere-a-study-in-the-economic-history-5etnabesa7.pdf

Alexander Gray

Papers

The Development of Economic Doctrine

The socialist tradition, Moses to Lenin

The Scottish Staple at Veere: A Study in the Economic History of Scotland.

Early British Economics

The Scottish staple at Veere : a study in the economic history of Scotland.