It is no secret that today economic crisis threatens the entire globe with disaster and conventional wisdom and standard economic theories have proven themselves helpless in the face of the mounting danger. Now more than ever before we must ask new questions about our economy and come up with new answers about what we should do to save our- selves before it is too late.
I started this book nearly ten years ago and, in a sense, it started itself. What was to become The Affluent Society was nearing completion when another and larger world began obtruding itself on my thoughts. This was a world of great corporations a world in which people increasingly served the convenience of these organizations which were meant to serve them. It was a world in which motives se…