Unlike the many other books now being written bewailing Western society's sorry state, this book offers a diagnosis and proposes remedial action While it is true that ours is an affluent society, and many people are having happy lives, and brilliant science and technology have made life easier and longer, consider just how badly we manage the economy: Periodic recession, obscene inequality and poverty for many despite hugely increasing economic output; and, specially in North America, a perverted broadcasting system paid for by business corporations to promote consumer goods, polluting the...