TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samuelson,Robert J.
TI  - The good life and its discontents: the American dream in the age of entitlement, 1945-1995 
SN  - 0812925920 (acid-free paper)
AV  - HJ7543 S193g 1995
U1  - 336.3/9 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Times Books
KW  - Entitlement spending
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1945-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-277) and index; I. The Entitlement society. The Postwar paradox -- History's chasm -- The Cult of affluence -- Prosperity's broken promise -- II. The New capitalism. The Apostles of control -- Cheery economics -- The Myth of management -- The Real economy -- III. The Politics of overpromise. Colliding ideals -- Borrow and spend -- Elusive equality -- Suicidal government -- Epilogue. After entitlement. History's cycles -- Responsibility, not entitlement -- Crisis or consensus?
N2  - The author portrays the postwar economic boom that "engendered a psychology of entitlement: a feeling that we had a right to uninterrupted personal and societal progress."
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/95021594.html
ER  -