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Prosperity of Vice A Worried View of Economics

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ISBN-10: 026201730X

ISBN-13: 9780262017305

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daniel Cohen, Susan Emanuel

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What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale. Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhere are leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries are exacerbated as competition increases for control of raw materials. Contrary to what believers in the "clash of civilizations" maintain, the great risk of the twenty-first century is not a confrontation between cultures but a repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than peace, has been the historical accompaniment to prosperity. Peace in…    
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Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the �cole Normale Sup�rieure and the Universit� de Paris-I. A member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the French Prime Minister, he is the author of The Wealth of the World and the Poverty of Nations, Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age, Globalization and Its Enemies, and Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society, all published by the MIT Press.

Susan Emanuel has translated many books from French, including The End of Sacrifice: Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity by Guy G. Stroumsa, also published by the University of Chicago Press.