© The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans’ conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as “private opulence amidst public squalor”. [GoogleAd] In so doing he made popular a term he borrowed from Sallust, the Roman historian who first expressed it in…
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