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    Summary of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
    Summary of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
    Summary of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society
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    Summary of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society

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    Listen to the Summary of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. The first requirement for an understanding of contemporary economic and social life is a clear view of the relation between events and the ideas which interpret them. Economic and social phenomena are so forbidding that they provide little hard testing of what exists and what does not...


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverest Media
    Release dateOct 13, 2022
    ISBN9798868650703
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