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The Culture of Contentment / John Kenneth Galbraith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691171654
  • 9781400889020
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.30973 23
LOC classification:
  • HC106.8
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- A WORD OF THANKS -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- A WORD OF THANKS -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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