The Culture of Contentment

by JohnKennethGalbraith (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.32

  The author's response to the political and economic condition of the West today, this book traces the growth of a new, stultifying contentment in our society. Galbraith contrasts the condition of the underclass to that of the self-serving, politically dominant classes. He looks at the causes and by-products of the current politico-economic stasis, such as short-term thinking and investment, and draws parallels between the crippling denial of trouble in Eastern Europe and that in our own backyard. The author also wrote The Affluent Society and The New Industrialist State .

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.17

  This book completes Galbraith's modern history trilogy which began with The Affluent Society . Here he describes the modern phenomenon of the contented wealthy: a large class of affluent people who have no short-term interest in using their resources to help the poorer classes. In short, this is the modern liberal politician's dilemma. Galbraith describes the current situation in the western world, and writes pessimistically of what history teaches us is likely to happen.