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Grassroots Dynamism: Source of Mass Flourishing

Phelps, Edmund S.

2013 Book Tour Speech: "The epic story of the West is the emergence in the 19th century of a wide prosperity the world had never seen before and its near-submergence in one nation after another in the 20th. My book Mass Flourishing can be read as a history of this phenomenon where it was forceful – in the “modern” economies of Britain and America from the 1820s, Germany and France from the 1870s."

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Academic Units
Center on Capitalism and Society
Economics
Series
Center on Capitalism and Society Working Papers, 122
Published Here
January 12, 2022

Notes

This version was read at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, November 4, 2013; Google, Mountain View, November 5, 2013; and Wellesley College, Wellesley, November 20, 2013.