by John Kenneth Galbraith · Planeta De Agostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439521792
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«La sociedad opulenta» is the essay by John Kenneth Galbraith, published by Planeta De Agostini in hardcover, with 312 pages, in Spanish.
Galbraith questions the conventional wisdom that dominates economic thought and shows how the opulence of the private sector coexists with the scarcity of public services. The essay analyzes the imbalances and inequalities generated by that abundance and raises the need to review social priorities.
Volume 11 of the collection Obras maestras del pensamiento contemporáneo. The work was originally published in English as The Affluent Society.
Aimed at readers of economic and philosophical essays, with an interest in contemporary social thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.
