# The Culture of Contentment

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- Authors: [John Kenneth Galbraith](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-kenneth-galbraith)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2017-08-29
- Genres: Economics

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Culture of Contentment

- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- ISBN: 978-06-9117-165-4
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2017-08-29
- Language: en_US