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Mass flourishing : how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change / Edmund Phelps.

By: Phelps, Edmund S.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xii, 378 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0691158983; 9780691158983.Subject(s): Economic history | EconomicsDDC classification: 330.94
Contents:
Introduction : Advent of the modern economies -- pt. 1, 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 -- pt. 2, 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 -- pt. 3, 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.
Summary: Explores what made some nations prosper and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Advent of the modern economies -- pt. 1, 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 -- pt. 2, 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 -- pt. 3, 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.

Explores what made some nations prosper and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today.

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