The puritan gift
Subtitle: reclaiming the American dream amidst global financial chaos
By: Kenneth Hopper and William Hopper
Contributors: Hopper, W. J. (William Joseph), 1929-
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781845119867
Description: "The Puritan Gift traces the origins and characteristics of an American managerial culture which, over the course of three centuries, turned a handful of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It argues that the energy, social mobility, competitiveness and capacity for innovation, all of which lie at the heart of that culture, have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America's first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. Drawing lessons from their own extensive experience, the authors warm that as America distances itself from the core values which underlay its commercial and economic success during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it puts its own future prosperity and security at risk."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-324) and indexes.