Mass Flourishing : : How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change / / Edmund S. Phelps.
In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 20 line illus. 5 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Advent of the Modern Economies
- PART ONE. The Experience of the Modern Economy
- 1. How Modern Economies Got Their Dynamism
- 2. Material Effects of the Modern Economies
- 3. The Experience of Modern Life
- 4. How Modern Economies Formed
- PART TWO. Against the Modern Economy
- 5. The Lure of Socialism
- 6. The Third Way: Corporatism Right and Left
- 7. Weighing the Rivals on Their Terms
- 8. The Satisfaction of Nations
- PART THREE. Decay and Refounding
- 9. Markers of Post-1960s Decline
- 10. Understanding the Post-1960s Decline
- 11. The Good Life: Aristotle and the Moderns
- 12. The Good and the Just
- Epilogue: Regaining the Modern
- Timeline: Modernism and Modernity
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index