{"product_id":"the-good-life-and-its-discontents-the-american-dream-in-the-age-of-entitlement-0679781528","title":"The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0679781528\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Samuelson, Robert J. Ker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Business Book Bestseller\"Shrewd and optimistic. . . . [The Good Life and Its Discontents] combines first-rate analysis with persuasive historical, political and sociological insights.\" -The New RepublicToday Americans are wealthier, healthier, and live longer than at any previous time in our history. As a society, we have never had it so good. Yet, paradoxically, many of us have never felt so bad. For, as Robert J. Samuelson observes in this visionary book, our country suffers from a national sense of entitlement-a feeling that someone, whether Big Business or Big Government, should guarantee us secure jobs, rising living standards, social harmony, and personal fulfillment.In The Good Life and Its Discontents, Samuelson, a national columnist for Newsweek and the Washington Post, links our rising expectations with our belief in a post-Cold War vision of an American utopia. Using history, economics, and psychology, he exposes the hubris of economists and corporate managers and indicts a government that promises too much to too many constituencies. Like David Reisman's The Lonely Crowd and John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, the result is a book that defines its time-and that is sure to shape the national debate for years to come.\"A smart, balanced epitaph for an era-with a few clues for what's ahead.\" -Business Week\"Lucid [and] nonsectarian . . . Samuelson traces how the reasonable demand for progress has given way to the excessive demand for perfection.\" -The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51952176791840,"sku":"NEW0679781528","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-good-life-and-its-discontents-the-american-dream-in-the-age-of-entitlement-0679781528","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}