In this Book
- The Culture of Contentment
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Princeton University Press
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.
Table of Contents
- A Word of Thanks
- pp. xxv-xxviii
- CHAPTER 3 The Functional Underclass
- pp. 24-32
- CHAPTER 6 The Bureaucratic Syndrome
- pp. 51-60
- CHAPTER 10 The Military Nexus, I
- pp. 95-102
- CHAPTER 11 The Military Nexus, II
- pp. 103-111
- CHAPTER 12 The Politics of Contentment
- pp. 112-119
- CHAPTER 13 The Reckoning, I
- pp. 120-128
- CHAPTER 14 The Reckoning, II
- pp. 129-134
- CHAPTER 15 Requiem
- pp. 135-142