Review: Economic Life: Adriana Kemp and Rebeca Raijman, Migrants and Workers: The Political Economy of Labour Migration in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House 2008, 222 pp., ISBN 9789650203979, NIS 79

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-241
Author(s):  
Gal Levy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
The Political

The Culture of Contentment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kenneth Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Advantage ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Many

This book examines what it calls the political economy of contentment. It argues that the fortunate and the favored do not contemplate and respond to their own longer-run well-being. Rather, they respond to immediate comfort and contentment. In the so-called capitalist countries, the controlling contentment and resulting belief is now that of the many, not just of the few. It operates under the guise of democracy, albeit a democracy not of all citizens but of those who, in defense of their social and economic advantage, actually go to the polls. This chapter discusses how economic life undergoes a constant process of change, and, in consequence, the same action or event occurring at different times can lead to very different results. It considers some examples throughout history, such as the economic ideas of the Physiocrats in France, the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

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