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THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM
NATIONALISM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH |
| By: |
Liah Greenfeld |
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Paperback |
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£32.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674012399 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674012394 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2003 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behaviour, which from the 16th century on has re-oriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity. |
| Synopsis: |
"The Spirit of Capitalism" answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Taking her title from Max Weber's famous study on the same subject, Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behaviour, which from the 16th century on has re-oriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity. A detailed analysis of the development of economic consciousness in England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan and the United States allows her to argue that the motivation, or "spirit," behind the modern, growth-oriented economy was not the liberation of the "rational economic actor" but, rather, nationalism. Nationalism committed masses of people to an endless race for national prestige and thus brought into being the phenomenon of economic competitiveness.Nowhere has economic activity been further removed from the rational calculation of costs than in the United States, where the economy has come to be perceived as the end-all of political life and the determinant of all social progress. American "economic civilization" spurs the nation on to ever-greater economic achievement. But it turns Americans into workaholics, unsure of the purpose of their pursuits, and leads American statesmen to exaggerate the weight of economic concerns in foreign policy, often to the detriment of American political influence and the confusion of the rest of the world. |
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1 table |
| Publication: |
US |
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Harvard University Press |
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