READING: Gunnar Myrdal: "Challenge to Affluence" (1963)

Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.

Myrdal’s missed apocalypse: affluence, technology, & the dual economy: do a wrong short-run forecast by a Swedish social democrat 75 years ago register the right long‑run anxiety for us today? And might post‑apartheid South Africa prefigure America’s technostructural into-bio tech-attention economy structural trap?? Writing this down because I am trying to decide what I think about this rather odd book: Myrdal, Gunnar. 1963. Challenge to Affluence. New York: Pantheon Books. <https://archive.org/details/bwb_S0-BKX-571>. Share This is one of the more interesting and also one of the most…

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