Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Phelps, Edmund S.

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.

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Description

xii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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?

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Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Creative ability in business
• Developed countries > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Developed countries > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Developed countries > Economic conditions > 21st century
• Diffusion of innovations
• Economic history
• Economics
• Technological innovations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0691158983
• 9780691158983

LCCN

^^2013936720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library