It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Topic

Majority opinions Conformity Intellectual history

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Source

The Affluent Society

Genre

Sociology Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Economist Writer

From

Canada

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Citation

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 2, sect. 1.

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