The Culture of Contentment. by Galbraith, John Kenneth - 1992

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First edition of Galbraith's bold assessment of the Western industrial world. Octavo, original boards. Signed and dated in 1995 by Galbraith on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. In The Culture of Contentment, Galbraith traces the growth of a stultifying contentment in the Western industrial world, represented by the G7 group of countries. He pays particular attention to the self-serving economic comfort achieved by the fortunate and politically dominant community and contrasts this to the condition of the underclass which he sees as being for the first time in these countries stalled in poverty.