The Birth of Plenty 
Subtitle: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: April 2, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780071421928
First sentence: IT'S ALL TOO TEMPTING TO LAMENT the state of the world, particularly when you focus on the melodramas of mankind-violent conflicts, large-scale malfeasance and failure, and the latest installments in the age-old racial and religious hatreds that permeate the human story.