William Bernstein

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work Was Created

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Produktbeschreibung

A provocative, highly acclaimed narrative of how prosperity has been the engine of civilization for the last 200 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9780071747042
• ISBN-10: 0071747044
• Artikelnr.: 29578922

Autorenporträt

William Bernstein (North Bend, OR) runs a website--www.efficientfrontier.com--known for its quarterly journal of asset allocation and portfolio theory, Efficient Frontier.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introduction; Section I - The Sources of Growth ; Chapter 1. A Hypothesis of Wealth; Chapter 2. Property; Chapter 3. Reason; Chapter 4. Capital; Chapter 5. Power, Speed, and Light; Chapter 6. Synthesis of Growth; Section II: Nations ; Chapter 7. The Winners-Holland and England; Chapter 8. Runners-Up; Chapter 9. The Last; Section III: Consequences ; Chapter 10. God, Culture, Mammon, and the Hedonic Treadmill; Chapter 11. The Great Trade-Off; Chapter 12. Mammon and Mars; Chapter 13. The End of Growth?; Chapter 14. When, Where, and Whither