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Have We Learned Anything about the Good Society?
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Item Title Have We Learned Anything about the Good Society?
Guest Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJuly 11, 1996
Description

We may not learn much we didn't know before from this encounter between two old friends and adversaries, but they do it so well. WFB: "My point is that all these rich people to whom you constantly make reference are not people who, because they become rich, hurt other people." JKG: "I wouldn't be so sure of that, Bill. It seems to me that as one looks at the modem corporate structure, there is an allocation of income to the upper brackets of the corporation which has been growing enormously in return as compared with that going to the mass of the workers. And I can't but think that that has been to the advantage of the corporate executives and to the disadvantage of those whose income is stable or declining." WFB: "There weren't any workers till Bill Gates quit school, went into his garage, and invented Microsoft. Now there are 40,000 of them. I think that's good, and if he ends up with $13 billion, I couldn't care less."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1093
Record Number80040.1364
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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