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Mass Flourishing

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Mass Flourishing

By Edmund S. Phelps

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About the book

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about 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? Phelps makes the case that the wellspring of this flou...Show more

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9780691165790

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2015

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1

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Mass Flourishing

Format

Paperback

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