The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work was Created,9780071747042

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work was Created

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071747042
ISBN10: 0071747044
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-07-12
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary

For the first time in paperback, the bestselling author of The Intelligent Asset Allocator gives us an economic, political, military, and institutional history of how the modern world was formed

Author Biography

About the Authors
William J. Bernstein is the editor of the quarterly asset allocation journal Efficient Frontier, founder of the popular website EfficientFrontier.com, and a principal in Efficient Frontier Advisors. He is often quoted in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Money, and Forbes.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction;Section I - The Sources of Growth; Chapter 1. A Hypothesis of Wealth; Chapter 2. Property; Chapter 3. Reason; Chapter 4. Capital; Chapter 5. Power, Speed, and Light; Chapter 6. Synthesis of Growth; Section II: Nations; Chapter 7. The Winners-Holland and England; Chapter 8. Runners-Up; Chapter 9. The Last; Section III: Consequences; Chapter 10. God, Culture, Mammon, and the Hedonic Treadmill; Chapter 11. The Great Trade-Off; Chapter 12. Mammon and Mars; Chapter 13. The End of Growth?; Chapter 14. When, Where, and Whither

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