Culture of Contentment Galbraith John Kenneth
Culture of Contentment Galbraith John Kenneth The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. Middle-class voting against regulation and increased taxation that would remedy…
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Culture of Contentment Galbraith John Kenneth
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. 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. 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.
A groundbreaking critique, The Culture of Contentment shows how the complacent majority captures the political process and determines economic policy. Only economic disaster, military action, or the eruption of an angry underclass seem capable of changing the status quo. -- "Kirkus