Mass flourishing : how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change / Edmund Phelps.
By: Phelps, Edmund S
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TextPublisher: 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 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 330.9 P512 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003483963 |
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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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