The Culture of Contentment

John Kenneth Galbraith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17165-4 (ISBN)

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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.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton).

Foreword ix

Jeff Madrick

A Word of Thanks xxv

1 The Culture of Contentment 1

2 The Social Character of Contentment: An Overview 11

3 The Functional Underclass 24

4 Taxation and the Public Services: The Perverse Effect 33

5 The License for Financial Devastation 40

6 The Bureaucratic Syndrome 51

7 The Economic Accommodation, I 61

8 The Economic Accommodation, II 74

9 The Foreign Policy of Contentment: The Recreational and the Real 85

10 The Military Nexus, I 95

11 The Military Nexus, II 103

12 The Politics of Contentment 112

13 The Reckoning, I 120

14 The Reckoning, II 129

15 Requiem 135

Index 143

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Vorwort	Jeff Madrick
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	142 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-691-17165-3 / 0691171653
ISBN-13	978-0-691-17165-4 / 9780691171654
Zustand	Neuware