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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelps, Edmund S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history.

Economics.

Physical Description:

xii, 378 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Phelps explores 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 not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before?

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0691158983

9780691158983

OCLC:

840582137