Unless restrained by conventional attitudes, he might wonder if the solution lay with more goods or fewer demons. But should it be that his passion was the result of his first having cultivated the demons, and should it also be that his effort to allay it stirred the demons to ever greater and greater effort, there would be question as to how rational was his solution. Were it so that a man on arising each morning was assailed by demons which instilled in him a passion sometimes for silk shirts, sometimes for kitchenware, sometimes for chamber pots, and sometimes for orange squash, there would be every reason to applaud the effort to find the goods, however odd, that quenched this flame. One cannot defend production as satisfying wants if that production creates the wants. Jk galbraith the affluent society pdf John Kenneth Galbraith (Ontàrio, 15 d’octubre de 1908 Massachusetts, 29 d’abril de 2006) fou un important economista estatunidenc del segle xx. For this means that the whole case for the urgency of production, based on the urgency of wants, falls to the ground. And above all, they must not be contrived by the process of production by which they are satisfied. They cannot be urgent if they must be contrived for him. “If the individual's wants are to be urgent, they must be original with himself.
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