The author's response to the political and economic condition of the West today, this book traces the growth of a new, stultifying contentment in our society. Galbraith contrasts the condition of the underclass to that of the self-serving, politically dominant classes. He looks at the causes and by-products of the current politico-economic stasis, such as short-term thinking and investment, and draws parallels between the crippling denial of trouble in Eastern Europe and that in our own backyard. The author also wrote "The Affluent Society" and "The New Industrialist State".
- ISBN10 1856191478
- ISBN13 9781856191470
- Publish Date 27 April 1992 (first published 6 April 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 July 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English