Stephen Davies
The Wealth Explosion
The Nature and Origins of Modernity
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How did the modern dynamist economy of wealth and opportunity come about? This major new analytical work emphasizes the often surprising, fundamental and continuing processes of innovation and transformation which has produced the world we live in now.Today we live in a social and economic world that is fundamentally different from the one inhabited by our ancestors. The difference between the experience of people living today and that of all of our ancestors back to the advent of agriculture is as great as that between them and their hunter-gatherer forebears.The processes of transformational changes could have started many times in history…
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How did the modern dynamist economy of wealth and opportunity come about? This major new analytical work emphasizes the often surprising, fundamental and continuing processes of innovation and transformation which has produced the world we live in now.Today we live in a social and economic world that is fundamentally different from the one inhabited by our ancestors. The difference between the experience of people living today and that of all of our ancestors back to the advent of agriculture is as great as that between them and their hunter-gatherer forebears.The processes of transformational changes could have started many times in history - but they first became sustained in North-West Europe about 240 years ago. The question of why this happened in that particular place and time is one that has exercised generations of scholars. Thanks to that work we now have a much clearer idea of how and why the traditional world of our ancestors was so different from the modern world that we inhabit.This book builds on that work and gives a new answer to the question of why and how things changed, showing that this unprecedented breakthrough was the result of the way a particular world-historical process worked out in Europe - largely because of contingent and accidental factors.The book also considers the question of what kind of world it is that we now live in - and whether it can continue.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-912224-59-3
- EAN: 9781912224593
- Produktnummer: 29550118
- Verlag: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 390 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 390
Über den Autor
Dr. Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in London. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. An historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984.
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