Culture of Contentment - John Kenneth Galbraith

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Culture of Contentment (eBook)

John Kenneth Galbraith (Autor)

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2017
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8902-0 (ISBN)

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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.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was professor of economics at Harvard University and served as U.S. ambassador to India during the Kennedy administration. He wrote more than fifty books, including American Capitalism, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State (Princeton).

Vorwort	Jeff Madrick
Verlagsort	Princeton
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
Schlagworte	Acquisitions • Adam Smith • Advertising • Agriculture • americans • arms buildup • Arthur Laffer • Bank • Bankruptcy • Book • Bureaucracy • bureaucrat • bureaucratic syndrome • Capitalism • Central Bank • civil service • Commercial Bank • common purpose • communism • complacency • consumer • Consumers • Consumption (Economics) • Contented Electoral Majority • Contented Majority • contentment • corporation • corporations • costs • Crime • Criticism • curtailment • Customer • debt • defense spending • Democracy • democratic party • Deposit account • Depression • Deregulation • disaster • Dissident • Eastern Europe • economic accommodation • economic advantage • economically advantaged • economic discomfort • Economic Inequality • economic interventionism • Economic Life • Economic Policies • Economic Policy • Economic Power • Economics • Economic well-being • economist • economy • Effective demand • Electoral Politics • Employment • external authority • Finance • financial devastation • Financial institution • Fiscal Policy • foreign policy • Franklin D. Roosevelt • functional underclass • George Gilder • Governance • Government • government spending • handwriting • have nots • haves • immediate gratification • Immigrants • income • incomes • Income Tax • industrial economy • Inflation • inner cities • Institution • Interest Rate • International Relations • Investment • invisible Hand • John Maynard Keynes • Laissez-faire • Laissez Faire • Law enforcement • Legislation • Leveraged buyout • loan scandal • Macroeconomic Policy • macroeconomic regulation • Mainstream economics • manuel noriega • media • Mergers • Mergers and acquisitions • Michael Milken • middle-class voting • Military • military action • military budget • Military power • military spending • Military Technology • Monetarism • monetary policy • MONEY • New Deal • Nicaragua • organization power • Payment • Pension • political behavior • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • politics of contentment • Poor • Poverty • poverty in the United States • Prediction • Price controls • private sector • Profit Maximization • Public Budget • Public Expenditure • public expenditures • Public Finance • Public Services • purchasing power • Recession • Recreation • Regressive tax • Regulation • Republican Party • Requirement • Research and Development • resentment • RJR Nabisco • Ronald Reagan • Saddam Hussein • salary • saving • Savings and loan association • savings scandal • security • self-regard • Shareholder • Slum • social advantage • social disorder • Social Exclusion • socially advantaged • social unrest • solvency • Soviet Union • Subsidy • supply-side economics • Tax • Taxation • Tax Policy • tax reductions • the poor • Thought • Time • underclass • underclass revolt • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • United States • Urban Slums • Violence • Voting • war • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • well-being • Western Europe • World War II • Writing
ISBN-10	1-4008-8902-2 / 1400889022
ISBN-13	978-1-4008-8902-0 / 9781400889020

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