In “The Affluent Society,” Galbraith argued that advancing technology would meet most material needs with far less human labor. But instead of rethinking what a good society looks like, we ...

Under British colonial rule, the Singapore Municipality and the Singapore Botanic Gardens planted roadside trees and created open spaces for recreational activities. In 1967 the government introduced ...

“The Affluent Society” is a modern classic, because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote.

PURSUIT OF THE PRODIGAL (292 pp.)—Louis Auchincloss—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75).Lawyer Reese Parmelee is rich, wellborn, intelligent, young, tall and thewed like an ox. He is fearsome in war ...

This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy.