by John Kenneth Galbraith · Houghton Mifflin (Trade) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780395669198
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«The Culture of Contentment» is the economic essay by John Kenneth Galbraith, published by Houghton Mifflin (Trade) in paperback (195 pages, in English).
Galbraith examines the conformism entrenched in American public life during the Reagan-Bush era: a comfortable minority imposes the short term, sees the state as a hindrance, and avoids entrepreneurial renewal. He links indifference to Eastern Europe's problems with that shown toward the country's own.
Work originally published in 1992; this edition is from 1993 and is classified in economics, philosophy, and social sciences.
Work aimed at university students and readers of political economy, sociology, and political philosophy.
John Kenneth Galbraith, also known as J. K. Galbraith or Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official, and intellectual. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. He served as the deputy director of the powerful Office of Price Administration (OPA) during World War II in charge of stabilizing all prices, wages and rents in the American economy, to combat the threat of inflation and hoarding during a time of shortages and rationing, a task which was successfully accomplished.
