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Author	Bernstein, William J.
Title	The birth of plenty : how the prosperity of the modern world was created / William J. Bernstein.
Publication Info.	New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	339.2 B	IN LIBRARY

Description	xii, 420 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-401).
Contents	Introduction -- The sources of growth -- A hypothesis of wealth -- Property -- Reason -- Capital -- Power, speed, and light -- Synthesis of growth -- Nations -- The winners, Holland and England -- Runners-up -- The last -- Consequences -- God, culture, Mammon, and the hedonic treadmill -- The great trade-off -- Mammon and Mars : the winner's curse -- The end of growth? -- When, where, and whither.
Subject	Wealth.
	Economic history.
	Economic development.
	Quality of life.
Added Title	How the prosperity of the modern world was created
ISBN	0071421920 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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