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Mass Flourishing : How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change /

"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, cre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Phelps, Edmund S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Advent of the modern economies
  • Part One: The experience of the modern economy. How modern economies got their dynamism
  • Material effects of the modern economies
  • The experience of modern life
  • How modern economies formed
  • Part Two: Against the modern economy. The lure of socialism
  • The third way : corporatism right and left
  • Weighing the rivals on their terms
  • The satisfaction of nations
  • Part Three: Decay and refounding. Markers of post-1960s decline
  • Understanding the post-1960s decline
  • The good life : Aristotle and the moderns
  • The good and the just
  • Epilogue : Regaining the modern
  • Timeline.