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04-30-2006
Excerpts from John Kenneth Galbraith's "The Affluent Society" (1958).

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On the proliferation of retail goods and the poverty of government services: "The line which divides our area of wealth from our area of poverty is roughly that which divides privately produced and marketed goods and services from publicly rendered services. ... In the years following World War II, the papers of any major city _ those of New York were an excellent example _ told daily of the shortages and shortcomings in the elementary municipal and metropolitan services. The ...

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