The spirit of capitalism : nationalism and economic growth / Liah Greenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenfeld, Liah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Nationalism--Economic aspects.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (556 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons for sustained economic growth? Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior, which from the 16th century on has reoriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Another Take on How It All Began

1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle

2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception"

II. The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent

3. The First Convert: France

4. The Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany

III. The Asian Challenge: The Way of Japan

5. Japanese Nationalism

6. Racing and Fighting

IV. The Economic Civilization: The Spirit of Capitalism in the New World

7. Searching for the American System

8. The Thrust

Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 487-532) and index.

ISBN:

9780674264045

0674264045

9780674037922

0674037928

OCLC:

654605062