LEADER 02792nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910972700303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780674264045 010 $a0674264045 010 $a9780674037922 010 $a0674037928 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786782 035 $a(OCoLC)654605062 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10318406 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000249834 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11194724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000249834 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10227749 035 $a(PQKB)10623964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300413 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300413 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318406 035 $a(OCoLC)923111149 035 $a(Perlego)3112990 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786782 100 $a20010405d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe spirit of capitalism $enationalism and economic growth /$fLiah Greenfeld 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (556 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674012394 311 08$a0674012399 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 487-532) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Another Take on How It All Began -- 1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle -- 2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception" -- II. The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent -- 3. The First Convert: France -- 4. The Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany -- III. The Asian Challenge: The Way of Japan -- 5. Japanese Nationalism -- 6. Racing and Fighting -- IV. The Economic Civilization: The Spirit of Capitalism in the New World -- 7. Searching for the American System -- 8. The Thrust -- Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000 -- Notes -- Index. 330 $aThis book answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons for sustained economic growth? Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior, which from the 16th century on has reoriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity. 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aNationalism$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aNationalism$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a338.9 700 $aGreenfeld$b Liah$0549034 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972700303321 996 $aThe spirit of capitalism$94352542 997 $aUNINA