Friday 4/25 @ 7:00pm
Farminary, Princeton Theological Seminary
In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found himself at Princeton Theological Seminary’s “Farm ...
One of Barack Obama’s 10 Favorite Books of the YearOne of the New Yorker’s Best Books of the YearFinalist for the Financial Times Best Book of the YearA vivid account of the past, present, and future...
Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to...
A history of how the pursuit of growth has kept us from creating a more sustainable and just world. Most economists believe that growth is the surest path to better lives. This has proven to be...
A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.Over the past two centuries,...
Monograph on economic growth trends in Ireland since 1947 - covers the role of domestic demand in generating higher growth rates, the relationship between home demand and exports, the effect of...
Policies to improve income distribution in developing countries in the context of economic growth - a joint study by the World Bank's Development Research Center and the Institute of Development...
For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing...
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not only the tools to analyze growth and related...
This book documents the growth of unproductive activity in the United States economy since World War II and its relation to the economic surplus, capital accumulation, and economic growth...
Making a strong case for the use of economic analysis in studying history and culture, Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were...
Growth and Equity focuses on some persistent problems facing developing countries: the narrowness of the domestic market, the disproportionality between sectors, premature migration, and the...
Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth—and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with...
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life.The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society...
A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set...
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways...
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Are You a Driver, an Explorer, a Crusader, or a Captain? Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone startup or a venture...
Philip Hoffman shatters the widespread myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant and ultimately dependent on wide-scale political...
The trade-off between inflation and growth is a major issue in economics, and in developing countries the problem arises mainly as a result of the dual roles played by public expenditure--which...
A framework for the analysis of public investment in the developing worldIn the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant...
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that...