The prosperity of vice : a worried view of economics / / Daniel Cohen ; translated by Susan Emanuel
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| Autore: |
Cohen Daniel <1953->
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| Titolo: |
The prosperity of vice : a worried view of economics / / Daniel Cohen ; translated by Susan Emanuel
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330 |
| Soggetto topico: | Economics - History |
| Economics - Sociological aspects | |
| Economic development | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | ECONOMICS/Trade & Development |
| ECONOMICS/Economic History | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How violence, rather than peace, has historically accompanied prosperity; and why emerging nations seem poised to repeat the tragic history of the industrialized world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The prosperity of vice |
| ISBN: | 0-262-30066-4 |
| 1-280-49944-3 | |
| 9786613594679 | |
| 0-262-30143-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823870203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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