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Title The moral consequences of economic growth / Benjamin M. Friedman.
Publisher New York : Knopf, [2005]
Copyright ©2005
Description x, 570 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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 DX-Room 320 - Adult  177 FRI Nearby on shelf  3 1974 00872 4519 04-08-16  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-548) 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.
Income distribution.
Political participation.
Democracy.
ISBN 9780679448914
0679448918
STANDARD # 9780679448914 53500