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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernstein, William J.
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.
Subjects:	Wealth. Economic history. Quality of life.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of 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.