Reviews for The Cuomo Commission report

The average rating for The Cuomo Commission report based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-28 00:00:00 John Efcvedc If you want to really understand why the economy is in the state it is in you should read this marvelous 1992 book by the late and great JK Galbraith. It is funny and very insightful. He basically argues that the economy and electoral system has been rigged by the comfortable (and he admits he is one of those)to not only keep the underclass under, import cheap labor and goods and boost the short term and screw the long term. His book The New Industrial State completely changed my personal life and this book is something of a sequel. Even if you don't read economics books, try this one to get some understanding of the tsunami that has come to an economy near you!

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-15 00:00:00 Joseph Law Docked a star for Galbraith's overly proper English and sentences that sometimes need to be diagrammed to be understood. The culture of contentment is characterized by: a functional underclass (to do the stuff we won't), military and market worship, fear of high taxes (even for the upper class, since the contented middle class may be next), hatred of government intervention (except for bailouts and subsidies), and short-term thinking. "Three plausible possibilities [for the end of the culture of contentment]: widespread economic disaster, adverse military action that is associate with international misadventure, and eruption of angry underclass." Two out of three. w00t!