Bibliograph

The moral consequences of economic growth, Benjamin M. Friedman

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The moral consequences of economic growth, Benjamin M. Friedman

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The moral consequences of economic growth

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bibliography

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57751594

Responsibility statement

Benjamin M. Friedman

Table Of 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

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