Culture and Prosperity The Truth about Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor

Name: Culture and Prosperity The Truth about Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor
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ISBN: 9780060587055

ISBN-10: 0060587059

ISBN-13: 9780060587055

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Kay

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A witty and accessible tour de force that is immersed in the latest economic thinking, Culture and Prosperity is an indispensable guide to the world around us and destined to become a classic text for understanding the politics of globalization. Guided by the belief that a combination of lightly regulated capitalism and liberal democracy -- the American business model -- is not just appropriate for America at the dawn of the twenty-first century, but a universal path to freedom and prosperity, the United States is an unrivaled colossus seeking to remake the world in its own image. After a decade of successive market revolutions around the world, beginning with the collapse of the…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes


Acknowledgments


A Note to Readers



The Issues



A Postcard from France



The Triumph of the Market



People



Figures



How Rich States Became Rich



The Structure of Economic Systems



Transactions and Rules



Production and Exchange



Assignment



Central Planning



Pluralism



Spontaneous Order



Perfectly Competitive Markets



Competitive Markets



Markets in Risk



Markets in Money



General Equilibrium



Efficiency



The Truth About Markets



Neoclassical Economics and After



Rationality and Adaptation



Information



Risk in Reality



Cooperation



Coordination



The Knowledge Economy



How It All Works Out



Poor States Stay Poor



Who Gets What?



Places



The American Business Model



The Future of Economics



The Future of Capitalism



Nobel Prizes in Economics


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index