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Growth triumphant

the twenty-first century in historical perspective

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August 3, 2024 | History
An edition of Growth triumphant (1996)

Growth triumphant

the twenty-first century in historical perspective

As we approach the twenty-first century, many see a world beset by economic stagnation and explosive population growth. Based on the historical experience of both developed and developing nations, this book offers a sharply differing view. Although the future is not without serious dangers, Easterlin sees rapid economic growth as successfully sweeping the world, with explosive population growth as a passing phenomenon. The question remains, what will the world be like when economic growth is triumphant?

Will humanity, freed from material need, turn to nonmaterial pursuits, as many have envisaged? The answer suggested by experience to date is No. Instead, the world will be one in which ever-growing abundance is continually outpaced by ever-rising material aspirations, a world stuck on a hedonic treadmill.

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Taking a longer-term view than most literature on economic development, Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author writes in the tradition of the "new economic history," drawing on economic theory and quantitative evidence to interpret the historical experience of economic and population growth.

He reaches beyond the usual disciplinary limits to draw, as appropriate, on sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and the history of science. This work will be of interest not only to social scientists but to all readers concerned with where we have been and where we are going.

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English
Pages
200

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Growth Triumphant: The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective (Economics, Cognition, and Society)
December 1, 1998, University of Michigan Press
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Growth triumphant: the twenty-first century in historical perspective
1996, University of Michigan Press
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Table of Contents

Historical overview
Revolution or evolution? : the epoch of modern economic growth
The international impact of modern economic growth
Modern economic growth and the national economy
Why isn't the whole world developed? : institutions and the spread of economic growth
The nature and causes of the mortality revolution
Malthus revisited : the economic impact of rapid population growth
The fertility transition : its nature and causes
Secular stagnation resurrected : population and the economy in developed countries
Does satisfying material needs increase human happiness?
The next century in historical perspective.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-188) and index.

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Ann Arbor
Series
Economics, cognition, and society

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.9
Library of Congress
HD75 .E168 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 200 p. :
Number of pages
200

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL967987M
ISBN 10
0472106945
LCCN
96004458
OCLC/WorldCat
34077030
Library Thing
1289582

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