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Consumption (Economics)

“Private vs. public”

by Henry Christopher Wallich,

Could Kenneth Galbraith be wrong?

Waste not, have not

by John Atlee Kouwenhoven,

A clue to American prosperity

Time on our hands

by Russell Lynes,

If we’re so rich, what’s eating us?

by Robert Lekachman,

Exit the gospel of work

by Henry Pratt Fairchild,

A new philosophy for a new era

Can business manage itself?

by Elmer Holmes Davis,

The new economics

by B.K. (Bernard Keble) Sandwell,

Our substitute lives

by Katharine Fullerton Gerould,

Editor’s easy chair

by Harper’s Staff,

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