The Affluent Society Discover 47 young emma watson and emma watson ideas emma, emma watson. In this important book a literate and versatile economist closely scrutinizes current ideas and attitudes in economics. He shows that they were worked out for a world far different from our own. This was a world of bleak poverty and one in which, except for a favored few, any other condition was unimaginable. Professor Galbraith shows how imperfectly and reluctantly the ideas appropriate to this world have been modified for application to the very different world The Affluent Society in which we live. Published 1958. Binding of book is loose. Several holes and waterstains on front cover of dust jacket. Tear on back panel of dust jacket. Several tapes, moderate fading, creasing and some foxing on dust jacket. Price clipped on flap of front panel of dust jacket. Some fraying on covers of book. Moderate tanning and foxing on edges of book. Slight foxing on endpapers of book. Slight foxing on certain pages, otherwise in good condition.