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Định nghĩa, "cân bằng chính xác," không quan trọng, để Galbraith là tinh thể "rõ ràng" rằng chúng ta phải di chuyển từ tư nhân đến hoạt động công cộng, và đến một mức độ "đáng kể". Chúng ta sẽ biết khi chúng tôi đến, khu vực công sau đó sẽ đắm mình trong sự sang trọng. | The Economics of Violent Intervention in the Market 987 definitions precise equilibrium are not important for to Galbraith it is crystal clear that we must move now from private to public activity and to a considerable extent. We shall know when we arrive for the public sector will then bask in opulence. And to think that Galbraith accuses the perfectly sound and logical monetary theory of inflation of being mystical and unrevealed magic 102 Before leaving the question of affluence and the recent attack on consumption the very goal of the entire economic system let us note two stimulating contributions in recent years on hidden but important functions of luxury consumption particularly by the rich. F.A. Hayek has pointed out the important 102A brief and therefore bald version of Galbraith s thesis may be found in John Kenneth Galbraith Use of Income That Economic Growth Makes Possible . . . in Problems of United States Economic Development New York Committee for Economic Development January 1958 pp. 201-06. In the same collection of essays there is in some ways a more extreme statement of the same position by Professor Moses Abramovitz who presses even further to denounce leisure as threatening to deprive us of that modicum of purposive disciplined activity which . . . gives savor to our lives. Moses Abramovitz Economic Goals and Social Welfare in the Next Generation ibid. p. 195. It is perhaps apropos to note a strong resemblance between coerced deprivation of leisure and slavery as well as to remark that the only society that can genuinely invest in men is a society where slavery abounds. In fact Galbraith writes almost wistfully of a slave system for this reason. Affluent Society pp. 274-75. In addition to Galbraith and Abramovitz other Galbraithian papers in the CED Symposium are those of Professor David Riesman and especially Sir Roy Harrod who is angry at touts the British brand of advertiser. Like Galbraith Harrod would also launch a massive government .