The Culture of Contentment - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395572282 ISBN 13: 9780395572283

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992

Synopsis

A response to the current state of American affairs traces the course of the self-serving economic comfort achieved by the fortunate, politically dominant community during the Reagan-Bush era of the 1980s. By the author of The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. Tour.

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From the Back Cover:

"The Culture of Contentment's core message about rising inequality, lessened economic mobility, and the serene self-satisfaction of those favored by such has been echoed and amplified endlessly in the last decade but rarely so elegantly and deftly."--Richard Parker, Harvard Kennedy School

About the Author:

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0395572282
• ISBN 13: 9780395572283
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 195