"One of this book's many attractions is its emphasis on the importance of interrelationships among social, political, and technical worlds in bringing ideas to reality."--The Wall Street Journal "Erudite, literate, and thoroughly absorbing."--Booklist "As Stephen Phelps reveals in this much needed b[...]

In this audiobook, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper?and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creat[...]