Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Name: Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
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ISBN: 9781400095711

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Authors: Benjamin M. Friedman

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From the author of "Day of Reckoning," the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan' s economic policy (" Every citizen should read it, " said "The New York Times"): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits. In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies- particularly of the United States since the Civil War- to demonstrate the fact that incomes on the rise lead to more open and democratic societies. He explains that "growth," rather than simply a high standard of living, is key to effecting political and social liberalization in the third world, and shows that even…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.03" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics at Yale University. Also the author of the award-winning "Macro Markets" as well as "Market Volatility", he lives in New Haven, Connecticut.Benjamin M. Friedman is William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University and the author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.



Preface



Ideas, Their Origins, and Their Implications



What Growth Is, What Growth Does



Perspectives from the Enlightenment and Its Roots



Crosscurrents: The Age of Improvement and Beyond



Rising Incomes, Individual Attitudes, and the Politics of Social Change



Democracy in America



From Horatio Alger to William Jennings Bryan



From TR to FDR



Great Depression, Great Exception



America in the Postwar Era



Other Times, Other Places: The European Democracies



Britain



France



Germany



Development, Equality, Globalization, and the Environment



Economics and Politics in the Developing World



Virtuous Circles, Vicious Circles



Growth and Equality



Growth and the Environment



Looking Forward



Economic Policy and Economic Growth in America


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index