| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 570 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I: Ideas, their origins, and their implications -- What growth is, what growth does -- Perspectives from the enlightenment and its roots -- Crosscurrents: the age of improvement and beyond -- Rising incomes, individual attitudes, and the politics of social change -- II: Democracy in America -- From Horatio Alger to William Jennings Bryan -- From TR to FDR -- Great depression, great exception -- America to the postwar era -- III: Other times, other places: the european democracies -- Britain -- France -- Germany -- IV: Development, equality, globalization, and the environment -- Economics and politics in the developing world -- Virtuous circles, vicious circles -- Growth and equality -- Growth and the environment -- V: Looking forward -- Economic policy and economic growth in America. |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Income distribution.
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Political participation.
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Democracy.
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| ISBN |
0679448918 hardcover alkaline paper |
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