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

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

Steven Stoll

210 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction economics history sociology informative medium-paced
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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? In "The Great Delusion," the historian and s...

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