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The Culture of Contentment / John Kenneth Galbraith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galbraith, John Kenneth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free enterprise--United States.
- Free enterprise.
- Poor--United States.
- Poor.
- Social values.
- United States--Economic policy--1981-1993.
- United States.
- United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-.
- United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.
- United States--Foreign relations--1989-1993.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class-not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority-defend their comfortable status at a cost. Middle-class voting against regulation and increased taxation that would remedy pressing social ills has created a culture of immediate gratification, leading to complacency and hampering long-term progress. Only economic disaster, military action, or the eruption of an angry underclass seem capable of changing the status quo. A groundbreaking critique, The Culture of Contentment shows how the complacent majority captures the political process and determines economic policy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD / Madrick, Jeff
- A WORD OF THANKS / Galbraith, John Kenneth
- CHAPTER 1. THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT
- CHAPTER 2. The Social Character of Contentment: An Overview
- CHAPTER 3. The Functional Underclass
- CHAPTER 4. Taxation and the Public Services: The Perverse Effect
- CHAPTER 5. The License for Financial Devastation
- CHAPTER 6. The Bureaucratic Syndrome
- CHAPTER 7. The Economic Accommodation, I
- CHAPTER 8. The Economic Accommodation, II
- CHAPTER 9. The Foreign Policy of Contentment: The Recreational and the Real
- CHAPTER 10. The Military Nexus, I
- CHAPTER 11. The Military Nexus, II
- CHAPTER 12. The Politics of Contentment
- CHAPTER 13. The Reckoning, I
- CHAPTER 14. The Reckoning, II
- CHAPTER 15. Requiem
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781400889020
- 1400889022
- OCLC:
- 1000396666
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