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.

John Kenneth Galbraith's now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom and bust in modern times. Vividly depicting the causes, effects, aftermath and long-term consequences of financial meltdown, Galbraith also describes the people and the corporations who were affected by the catastrophe. With its depiction of the 'gold-rush fantasy' ingrained in America's psychology, The Great Crash 1929 remains a penetrating study of human greed and folly.

John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

John Galsworthy (1867—1933) was an English novelist and playwright. The part of "The Forsyte Chronicles" tells about a new generation that has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.

'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society' Wall Street Journal John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O'Hara's finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker.