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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Daniel Bell
Reviewed by Robert Gilpin
April 1976
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Daniel Bell
Basic Books
1976
301 pp.
$12.95
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The theme of this erudite and important diagnosis of the crisis of Western civilization is the increasing divergence between the capitalistic economic system and emergent cultural-political values.

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