05002cam a2200505 a 4500 113761 113761 17680356 BJBSDDR 20230411090621.0 ta 130401s2013 njua b 001 0 eng d 2013936720 GBB365196 bnb 016460357 Uk 9780691158983 0691158983 (OCoLC)ocn840582137 YDXCP eng YDXCP DLC eng lccopycat HC 51 P538m 2013 330.09 23 Phelps, Edmund S. (Edmund Strother), 9995 1933- Mass flourishing : how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change / Edmund Phelps. Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2013] xii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text rdacontent still image rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-349) and index. Introduction : Advent of the modern economies -- Part One: The experience of the modern economy. How modern economies got their dynamism -- Material effects of the modern economies -- The experience of modern life -- How modern economies formed -- Part Two: Against the modern economy. The lure of socialism -- The third way : corporatism right and left -- Weighing the rivals on their terms -- The satisfaction of nations -- Part Three: Decay and refounding. Markers of post-1960s decline -- Understanding the post-1960s decline -- The good life : Aristotle and the moderns -- The good and the just -- Epilogue : Regaining the modern -- Timeline. Phelps explores 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? "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 flourishing was modern values such as the desire to create, explore, and meet challenges. These values fueled the grassroots dynamism that was necessary for widespread, indigenous innovation. Most innovation wasn't driven by a few isolated visionaries like Henry Ford; rather, it was driven by millions of people empowered to think of, develop, and market innumerable new products and processes, and improvements to existing ones. Mass flourishing--a combination of material well-being and the "good life" in a broader sense--was created by this mass innovation. Yet indigenous innovation and flourishing weakened decades ago. In America, evidence indicates that innovation and job satisfaction have decreased since the late 1960s, while postwar Europe has never recaptured its former dynamism. The reason, Phelps argues, is that the modern values underlying the modern economy are under threat by a resurgence of traditional, corporatist values that put the community and state over the individual. The ultimate fate of modern values is now the most pressing question for the West: will Western nations recommit themselves to modernity, grassroots dynamism, indigenous innovation, and widespread personal fulfillment, or will we go on with a narrowed innovation that limits flourishing to a few? A book of immense practical and intellectual importance, Mass Flourishing is essential reading for anyone who cares about the sources of prosperity and the future of the West." -- Publisher's description. Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Economics) 2014 Historia económica 28 Ciencias económicas 274 Países desarrollados 2064 Sociedad civil. Países desarrollados 14219 Condiciones económicas Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013936720-d.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013936720-b.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1410/2013936720-t.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2019-11-19 0 HC 51 P538m 2013 00000140115 2019-11-19 00:00:00 1 2019-11-19 BK