AHE 2014 CONFERENCE GREENWICH, LONDON, 2-4 JULY 2014
THE CRISIS OF THE “AFFLUENT SOCIETIES” AND THE NEED OF AN EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE: INSIGHTS FROM J.K.GALBRAITH’S BOOK AND FROM OTHER HETERODOX THEORIES OF “QUALITATIVE” DEVELOPMENT+
Arturo Hermann*
+ The work also builds on the following contributions of the author: Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society: Insights from Heterodox Economics and Psychoanalysis, Rome, Aracne, November 2012; “Policy Responses to Economic and Financial Crises: Insights from Heterodox Economics and Psychoanalysis”, International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, vol.3, n.1, pp.8-22, 2012, link http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=47477 “La ‘Società Opulenta’ di John Kenneth Galbraith e la sua rilevanza per i problemi attuali”, Il Pensiero Economico Moderno, nn.1-2, 2012. * Senior research fellow at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT); the usual disclaimer applies