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	AllRefer.com - affluent society (Economics: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
		affluent society, term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society (1958) to describe the United States after World War II.
		An affluent society, as the term was used ironically by Galbraith, is rich in private resources but poor in public ones because of a misplaced priority on increasing production in the private sector.
		Galbraith argued that industrial production was being devoted to satisfying trivial consumer needs, in part to maintain employment, and that the United States should shift resources to improve schools, the infrastructure, recreational resources, and social services, providing a better quality of life instead of an ever greater quantity of consumer goods.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/affluent.html (264 words)

	affluent society - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about affluent society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Society in which most people have money left over after satisfying their basic needs such as food and shelter.
		Galbraith used the term to describe the Western industrialized nations, particularly the USA, in his book The Affluent Society 1958, in which he advocated using more of the nation's wealth for public spending and less for private consumption.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /affluent%20society (144 words)

	affluent society. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
		A society in which scarcity of resources is not the predominant condition, and a general level of economic well-being has been achieved by most members of society.
		In Galbraith’s affluent society, this priority is misplaced because scarcity is not predominant.
		The continued pursuit of conventional economic objectives in an affluent society leads to the conditions Galbraith observed in postwar America: private-sector affluence and public-sector squalor.
	www.bartleby.com /59/18/affluentsoci.html (255 words)

	Biographies: The Economists: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908- ).
		Rather it was devoted to other themes: to denigrating the tastes of ordinary people, the tastes of those who prefer pushpin to poetry, who prefer large tailfins to nice, compact, expensive little cars.
		Allen did not think it quite proper for a "conversationalist" to give an "idiosyncratic interpretation of orthodox doctrine in order to give force to his own arguments." And while his lectures were full of interest and fire, Galbraith misled people.
		It is a false religion which has a perverse view of the nature of man (to Galbraith and his ilk, men are but like whining sheep).
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Galbraith.htm (1039 words)

	Original Affluent Society
		In paleolithic society, the primary source of energy is derived from the food stuffs that are individually consumed and is the equivalent to approximately 2,000 kilocalories needed per day per capita.
		In historic and contemporary gatherer-hunter society, energy is derived from food consumed and from firewood used for heating and cooking.
		Given the social equality and the kinship sharing characteristic of gatherer-hunter society, hunger is not "institutionalized." Gatherer-hunter society is typically an equalitarian society.
	www.webpages.uidaho.edu /~rfrey/original.html (1507 words)

	affluent society on Encyclopedia.com
		term coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in The Affluent Society (1958) to describe the United States after World War II.
		MarketResearch.com: "Household Insurance for the Affluent" by Datamonitor May 2005.
		The problem of inequality: some people argue that the most successful societies produce the highest quality of life for the greatest number of people, and the best way to achieve that is through government policies....
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a1/affluent.asp (557 words)

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	SkyMinds.Net (British Politics : The Affluent Society)
		For the first time in their lives, many working-class and lower middle-class people benefited considerably from the "affluent society".
		They then produced an intergenerational mobility table which showed, according to them, that Britain was characterised by a barrier between manual and non-manual workers, by a lot of short-range mobility, and finally by much rigidity and "self-recruitment", especially at the upper levels of society, where sons would follow in their fathers' footsteps.
		The term "socially deprived" is seen as being more inclusive since those so deprived are deprived by other members of society who themselves may be able to do something about the situation or who may require the Government to act on their behalf.
	www.skyminds.net /politics/gb_08_the_affluent_society.php (4732 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of John Galbraith's The Affluent Society
		Moreover, since these mistaken or malicious factors can not prevail for long, eventually people will realize that they are consuming beyond their needs and they will stop.
		Therefore, since man, in his view, does not need more than the minimal requirements of existence and since modern society produces enough to satisfy these basic needs for every citizen, it is foolish to keep our focus on expanding the economy.
		But perhaps the most incredible aspect of the book is his treatment of the American economy as a closed system; he never mentions our trading partners or the developing world and how they will impact the "Affluent Society".
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/432 (919 words)

	Paul Musgrave Dot Com: John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Galbraith's The Affluent Society stands as the intellectual summation of the liberal movement that arose sometime around the end of the Wilson administration (for these were more energetic users of government than the Progressives) and dominated American politics from Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural to Jimmy Carter's.
		There were other values left for them to champion, and The Affluent Society rehearses them all: Private interests impoverish the public weal, poverty is a material phenomenon, planning and government action can trump the market and the private world regularly and completely.
		The Affluent Society, written by a Harvard professor, a presidential adviser, and an eminent intellectual of his time, is really nothing more than an affirmation of the conventional wisdom of a certain influential group.
	www.paulmusgrave.com /blog/archives/000629.html (2643 words)

	The Affluent Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		in the affluent society he forsees the rise of the consumer society.he shows the freemarket system is imperfect.he explains why governments are important,he shows how the military is the third force.he explains the concept of conventional wisdom...and so on.
		Galbraith is an economist who is untouchable in his field of work and it shows in the Affluent Society.
		The affluent society is a well written critique of established economic ideas by a brilliant writer.
	www.travelingo.org /books/0140285199 (666 words)

	The Original Affluent Society--Marshall Sahlins
		Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the hunter's - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied.
		To accept that hunters are affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of man slaving to bridge the gap between his unlimited wants and his insufficient means is a tragedy of modern times.
		It evokes a second source of ethnographic misconceptions: the anthropology of hunters is largely an anachronistic study of ex-savages an inquest into the corpse of one society, Grey once said, presided over by members of another.
	www.primitivism.com /original-affluent.htm (6175 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		...The Affluent Society is by far the most serious critique of "welfare capitalism" that has been written in the postMarxian era...
		...And large-scale unemployment, with all its suffering, is intolerable and absurd in a society suffering from an embarras de richesses...
		...This is the American economy and the American society, as we have personal and repeated knowledge of it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V26I2P90-1.htm (1582 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Some votes are more equal than others
		Affluent middle England delivers political power, and attracts political effort.
		But these days the excluded are a minority of an increasingly affluent society whose concerns have moved on.
		Of those 22, Britain is the least equal society with the exception of two much poorer societies, Portugal and Estonia, as measured by the Gini index on behalf of the World Bank.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1490031,00.html (870 words)

	The Affluent Society Summary Study Guide by John Kenneth Galbraith: BookRags
		The Affluent Society (1958), John Kenneth Galbraith’s most broadly influential book, stands out among works of economic analysis for its accessible writing style, which makes complex economic concepts and arguments understandable to the popular reader.
		Galbraith’s phrase ‘‘conventional wisdom,’’ a key concept introduced in The Affluent Society, has entered common parlance so pervasively that it is now used to describe a variety of concepts not necessarily related to economic theory.
		Galbraith asserts that the conventional wisdom of economic thinking in the United States is based in nineteenth-century European economic theory and is no longer suited to the unprecedented phenomenon of mass affluence achieved by American society in the twentieth century.
	www.bookrags.com /guides/affluentsociety (311 words)

	The Affluent Society
		The net result is that society as a whole focuses on increasing production by private industry.
		The Affluent Society provides a history of that change, a look at how our failure to adapt has led to a number of social problems, and suggests how we might better organize economic priorities in the present.
		The Affluent Society is probably not read anymore, and for good reason, because it doesn't have a great deal to say today.
	www.centrasoft.net /b23/0395925002.htm (1129 words)

	Can Renewables Sustain Affluent Society?
		Although renewable energy must be the sole source in a sustainable society, major difficulties become evident when conversions, storage and supply for high latitudes are considered.
		One is to base the continued pursuit of affluent living standards and economic growth on some combination of fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear energy and conservation measures.
		This is to move to a 'radical conserver society' in which it is possible to live well on far lower levels of per capita energy consumption and, after a period of marked "de-development", without growth in economic output or energy use.
	www.mnforsustain.org /trainer_t_renewable_sustain_society.htm (15425 words)

	Affluent Society and Turbulent Sixties - Day 1
		The Affluent Society and be prepared to discuss it in class.
		Following, there will be a class discussion of the impressions of these images.
		The teacher will explain the forces of economics, society, culture, and technology in the post-war period.
	www.duke.edu /~kmf8/Portfolio/plans/lesson/civilrights1.htm (206 words)

	An Affluent Society? Britain's Postwar Golden Age Revisited
		They certainly possessed contradictions in some of their positions, but understood the need to appeal to the affluent center ground, as did New Labour so successfully some four decades later.
		These perspectives were influenced not only by wealthy British socialists by also by the 'mass society' approaches of David Reisman and Vance Packard and others from the U.S. The American influence was complex, however.
		Negative interpretations were mediated by the more nuanced and realistic sociologies of suburban life by other American academics, notably Herbert J. Gans and his more positive appraisals of suburban life during the 1960s.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0923.shtml (1063 words)

	Buy.com - The Affluent Society : John Kenneth Galbraith : ISBN 0395925002
		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.
		In eloquent prose, Galbraith's AFFLUENT SOCIETY examines the gap between the rich and poor, arguing that within that space an ethical imperative exists to sustain all of humanity.
	www.buy.com /prod/The_Affluent_Society/q/loc/106/30372473.html (365 words)

	The Affluent Society: John Kenneth Galbraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Consumer Summary - The Affluent Society was a term to describe the United States after World War II.
		An Affluent Society is rich in private resources but poor in public ones because of a misplaced priority on increasing production in the private sector.
		John Kenneth Galbraith argued that the U.S. should shift resources to improve schools, the infrastructure, recreational resources, and social services providing a better standard of life instead of mor and more consumer goods.
	www.bookreviewsandsummaries.com /books/0395925002.htm (125 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In a sane society information on what is available could easily be accecssible without much expense.
		In consumer society people identify their success, self-respect and status with the posessions they can display.
		We cannot achieve a just and sustainable society unless we move to an economy that is not driven by market forces, the profit motive and growth.
	www.arts.unsw.edu.au /tsw/05-Our-Unsust-Con-Soc2.html (1856 words)

	affluent society - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	American Church History: An Affluent Society
		That is still a live debate—as to whether we live in a post-Christian era—but the famous church historian Kenneth Latourette said that it was premature to say such about the 1950s because Christianity was really changing forms—new movements were emerging where old ones were dying out.
		o We now live in a society which is quite different from all previous incarnations of society.
		Now what we’ve got to do is adjust the social, psychological, political, and economic balance within society because in some ways we’re living in a time of incredible abundance and surprising squalor.
	www.negia.net /~dorme/mcintosh2002p.html (1935 words)

	The Affluent Society
		The economist's prose, lofty but still easily manageable, laid down the gauntlet for the post-cold war class struggle that was still far in the future in 1958.
		The idea that all those factories that once produced beautiful bombers would now be producing chrome by the ton was deeply offensive to sense both of discretion--wealth is not for display--and technocratic utility: production should serve a purpose, whether it be fighting Hitler or fighting poverty.
		Most economic theory is based on the notion of scarcity, yet we live in a society of generalized affluence.
	www.xmlwriter.org /books/reviews/0395925002-2.html (2408 words)

	'Breakfast of Champions': The Affluent Society? Welcome to the Fun House
		Those were the days, the movie reminds us, when it was almost a heresy to disparage the booming affluence of a society that television, then in its infancy, promoted as an unfolding paradise on earth.
		In subsequent decades, of course, the pendulum swung so far in the other direction that when Vonnegut's satire was published in 1973, it was almost a heresy (italics)not(end italics) to disparage a corrupt, "plastic" culture poisoned with a thousand toxins, from Watergate to Muzak.
		It is with a bitter self-awareness that we accept the price of our present comfort as a willed, guilty blindness to the problems of the rest of the world and to serious inequities within our own society.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/091799breakfast-film-review.html (954 words)

	The Affluent Society
		The contours of the technological, consumer-oriented, and remarkably affluent society of the 1950s, and its shadow, consisting of a less privileged underclass and the existence of a small corps of aesthetic detractors.
		The effects of affluence on the American lifestyle in the 1950s, including the rapid growth of suburbs, televisions, and rock ‘n' roll.
		The aesthetic and social backlash against the affluent society, as manifested in the writings of the Beat and the rise of juvenile delinquency.
	highered.mcgraw-hill.com /sites/0072900423/student_view0/chapter30 (471 words)

	H102 Lecture 24: The Cold War and the 1950s: The Affluent Society
		The growing impact of television and the rise of youth culture led many social critics to charge that America was becoming homogenized, conformist society.
		Critics also believed that the growth of non-denominational churches indicated that religion was becoming a thing of the past in America.
		Even after Congress added "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" to the nation's currency, real spirituality seemed to be disappearing from American society.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/lecture24.html (2336 words)

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