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The Prosperity of Vice

By Daniel Cohen

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The Prosperity of Vice

By Daniel Cohen

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What happened yesterday in the West is today being repeated on a global scale. Industrial society is replacing rural society: millions of peasants in China, India, and elsewhere are leaving the countryside and going to the city. New powers are emerging and rivalries are exacerbated as competition increases for control of raw materials. The great risk of the twenty-first century is not a confrontation between cultures but a repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than peace, has been the historical accompaniment to prosperity. Peace in Europe came only after the barbaric wars of the twentieth century, not as the outcome of economic growth. What will happen this time for today¿s eagerly Westernizing emerging nations?
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2012-02-03
Publication Date:
2012-02-10
Publisher:
MIT Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
026201730X
ISBN13:
9780262017305
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
387 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
217 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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