The birth of plenty
Subtitle: how the prosperity of the modern world was created
By: William J. Bernstein
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780071747042
Subjects: Economic history; Wealth; Quality of life
Table of contents: title: An hypothesis of wealth; title: Property; title: Reason; title: Capital; title: Power, speed, and light; title: Synthesis of growth; title: The winners : Holland and England; title: Runners-up; title: The last; title: God, culture, mammon, and the hydonic treadmill; title: The great trade-off; title: Mannon and Mars : the winner's curse; title: The end of growth?; title: When, where, and whither.