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Medientyp:
E-Book
Titel:
The Culture of Contentment
Enthält:
Frontmatter -- ; CONTENTS -- ; FOREWORD
/ Madrick, Jeff --
A WORD OF THANKS
/ Galbraith, John Kenneth --
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
Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
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.