From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 10:57:01 +1000
Subject: Book Review - The Culture of Contentment

     title: The Culture of Contentment
        by: John Kenneth Galbraith
 publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson 1992
  subjects: politics, economics, United States
     other: 195 pages, index

_The Culture of Contentment_ is an analysis of how the short-term,
self-interested perspective of the well-off has shaped modern
political and economic culture, especially in the United States.
There's nothing really original in what Galbraith has to say --
most of it seems obvious if not self-evident, at least to me --
but he says it elegantly and, given the current political climate,
it obviously needs saying.  Galbraith's wry understatement is more
damning in a way than more stridently polemical attacks, and is
certainly more effective.

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%T	The Culture of Contentment
%A	John Kenneth Galbraith
%I	Sinclair-Stevenson
%C	London
%D	1992
%O	paperback, index
%G	ISBN 1-85619-147-8
%P	ix,195pp
%K	politics, economics, United States

Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
1 July 1995

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