The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth

by Steven Stoll

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Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should-even that they must-expand in wealth indefinitely? InThe Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809095068

ISBN13:9780809095063

Release Date:September 2008

Publisher:Hill & Wang

Length:210 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Americas Business Business & Investing Development & Growth Economic Conditions Economic History Economics Environmental Economics History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local Theory World

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