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The prosperity of vice : a worried view of economics / Daniel Cohen ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Daniel, 1953-2023, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--History.
- Economics.
- Economics--Sociological aspects.
- Economic development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world.
- Contents:
- Genesis
- Birth of the modern world
- The law of Malthus
- Unbound Prometheus
- Perpetual growth
- The economic consequences of the war
- The great crisis and its lessons
- The golden age and its crisis
- The end of solidarities
- War and peace
- The return of India and China
- The end of history and the West
- The ecological crash
- The financial crash
- The weightless economy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30066-4
- 1-280-49944-3
- 9786613594679
- 0-262-30143-1
- OCLC:
- 777191987
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613594679
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