The Culture of Contentment / / John Kenneth Galbraith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Galbraith, John Kenneth,
• MitwirkendeR: Galbraith, John Kenneth,; Madrick, Jeff,
• TeilnehmendeR: Madrick, Jeff.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400889020; 9783110543322
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400889020?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Kenneth Galbraith.

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.