New Class - John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

Canadian-American liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith also wrote about a similar phenomenon under Capitalism, the emergence of a technocratic layer in The New Industrial State, and The Affluent Society.

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