The Culture of Contentment

The Culture of Contentment
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 176
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691171654
ISBN-13 : 0691171653
Rating : 4/5 (653 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Culture of Contentment by : John Kenneth Galbraith

Download or read book The Culture of Contentment written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Culture of Contentment Related Books

The Culture of Contentment
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: John Kenneth Galbraith
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-29 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 c
This Book Won't Make You Happy
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Niro Feliciano
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-05 - Publisher: Broadleaf Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When people find out she is a therapist, Niro Feliciano knows she isn't going anywhere anytime soon. At soccer games, at cocktail parties, in waiting rooms, peo
Contentment and Suffering
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Douglas Wood Hollan
Categories: Ethnopsychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to
Glorious Contentment
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Stuart McConnell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-02-01 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth
Chasing Contentment
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Erik Raymond
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-16 - Publisher: Crossway

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Recovering the Lost Art of Contentment The biblical practice of contentment can seem like a lost art—something reserved for spiritual giants but out of reach