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Informationen zum Autor Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology at Boston University. Klappentext "The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior! which from the sixteenth century on has reoriented 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 behind the modern! growth-oriented economy was nationalism. Zusammenfassung This book answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons for sustained economic growth? Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior! which from the 16th century on has reoriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit! transforming the nature of economic activity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Another Take on How It All Began 1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle 2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception" Part II: The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent 3. The First Convert: France 4. The Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany Part III: The Asian Challenge: The Way of Japan 5. Japanese Nationalism 6. Racing and Fighting Part IV: The Economic Civilization: The Spirit of Capitalism in the New World 7. Searching for the American System 8. The Thrust Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000 Notes Index
