TY - BOOK AU - Cohen,Daniel TI - The prosperity of vice: a worried view of economics SN - 9780262017305 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - HB 75 C678p 2012 U1 - 330 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - MIT Press KW - Economics KW - History KW - Sociological aspects KW - Economic development KW - Ciencias económicas KW - Historia KW - Aspectos sociológicos N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Genesis -- Birth of the modern world -- The law of Malthus -- Unbound Prometheus -- Perpetual growth -- The economic consequences of the war -- The great crisis and its lessons -- The golden age and its crisis -- The end of solidarities -- War and peace -- The return of India and China -- The end of history and the West -- The ecological crash -- The financial crash -- The weightless economy N2 - How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world ER -