Book

The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created

Call Number

  • 339.2 B531 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

Physical Description

xii, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Summary

Presents the current state of the global economy, and identifies the forces necessary for sustained growth-scientific rationalism, property rights, capital markets, and solid communications and transportation infrastructure.

Contents

  • An hypothesis of wealth
  • Property
  • Reason
  • Capital
  • Power, speed, and light
  • Synthesis of growth
  • The winners : Holland and England
  • Runners-up
  • The last
  • God, culture, mammon, and the hydonic treadmill
  • The great trade-off
  • Mannon and Mars : the winner's curse
  • The end of growth?
  • When, where, and whither.

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