by John Kenneth Galbraith · Editorial Ariel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434414068
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«La cultura de la satisfacción» is the economic essay by John Kenneth Galbraith, published by Editorial Ariel in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Galbraith examines the relationship between the state, taxes, and the satisfied electoral majority in advanced societies. He analyzes the functional underclass, bureaucracy, foreign policy, and the role of the military, and argues that this majority marks the boundary between what is accepted and what is rejected, leaving out a marginalized and conflicted underclass.
Original title: The Culture of Contentment. On the cover: Taxes, what for? Who are the beneficiaries? Translation by José Manuel Álvarez Flórez.
For readers interested in economics, politics, and sociology who want to understand the debate on the state, taxes, and advanced societies.
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.
