The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.
The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.
The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.
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New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
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English
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xii, 420 p. : ill., map, chart ; 24 cm.
Contents
Sect. I. The sources of growth -- Ch. 1. A hypothesis of wealth -- Ch. 2. Property -- Ch. 3. Reason -- Ch. 4. Capital -- Ch. 5. Power, speed, and light -- Ch. 6. Synthesis of growth -- Sect. II. Nations -- Ch. 7. The winners - Holland and England -- Ch. 8. Runners-ups -- Ch. 9. The last -- Sect. III...
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New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2004.
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"The Birth of Plenty suggests - and supports with groundbreaking analysis - that from the dawn of recorded history through 1820, the "mass of man" experienced essentially zero growth, both in economic standing or living standards. It was only in the nineteenth century that the world's standard of living began to inexorably and irreversibly improve...
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The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
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c2004.
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0071421920 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780071421928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0071421920 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780071421928 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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339.2
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