The Culture of Contentment /

The Culture of Contentment / / 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. Middl...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of 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

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