Abstract

affluent society. When you include their dependents, Editorial you have about 16 million people who are out of the race to achieve an ever-higher standard of living. Add to this number the proprietors of small busi­ nesses in depressed areas who aren't doing any business, plus 15 million others attached to spending units who in the best of times manage to earn marginal incomes, and you have approximately 35 million people with economic bellyaches of varying intensity. I would say that all of these people are candidates to join the group HE COHORTS of Karl Marx could have hardly dealt that doubts that the free enterprise medicine man free enterprise a blow more severe than free enter­ knows what he is talking about. (I have not included prise dealt itself this past month. How so? For one in my tally certain intellectuals who would wonder thing the business community acknowledged what a about the sad state of things in Paradise itself.) lot of "simple folk" knew for almost a year: the country, Now, I have my own ideas about that doctor whose it seems, is in the grip of another economic recession, stature may be declining in the eyes