Review

Galbraith’s latest work, The Good Society, is a broad-based look at economics. Galbraith poses the question of how, in spite of political restraints, we can use economics for the improvement of the world's quality of life. Galbraith gives an interesting, though admittedly biased, view of inflation, regulation, the environment, the military, poverty, migration, and more.

            Galbraith is Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard and has long been thought of as one of the earlier leading minds in economic literature for the masses. He is best known for his work The Affluent Society, but he has written many other novels. The Good Society is more of an attempt to take some of the main ideas from all of these works and summarize them, in relatively simple economic terms. While his writing may be slightly verbose and aloof, he comes across as generally intending to do well and does pose many interesting arguments.

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