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By the controversial social critic and author of "Illiberal Education" comes a big-hearted book that revels the pursuit of wealth through capitalism as morally edifying.
List of contents
ContentsINTRODUCTION: GEEK CHIC: Anthropologist in a Strange Land
CHAPTER ONE: A WORLD WITHOUT LIMITS
What's New About the New Economy
CHAPTER TWO: THE GATHERING STORM
Mass Affluence and Its Discontents
CHAPTER THREE: CREATED UNEQUAL
Merit and the Ones Left Behind
CHAPTER FOUR: THE LOTTERY OF SUCCESS
Who Wins, Who Loses
CHAPTER FIVE: EYE OF THE NEEDLE
The Moral Critique of Prosperity
CHAPTER SIX: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST
Goodbye Nature, Family, and Community?
CHAPTER SEVEN: A FUTURE THAT WORKS
Why Techno-Capitalism Prevailed
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONQUEST OF HUMAN NATURE
Technology and the Remaking of Humanity
CHAPTER NINE: THE SEDUCTION
The Quest for the Posthuman
CHAPTER TEN: THE GIFT
The Things That Matter the Most
NOTES
INDEX
About the author
DINESH DSOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, DSouza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books includingAmerica,The Big Lie,Death of a Nation, andUnited States of Socialism, he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.
Summary
In The Virtue of Prosperity, Dinesh D'Souza examines the spiritual and social crisis spawned by the new economy and new technologies of the last ten years. D'Souza questions the basic premise of the American dream that prosperity and "progress" will better the human condition. Anchored in history, rich in anecdote, and supported by state-of-the-art data, The Virtue of Prosperity is a tough-minded critique of our high-tech culture, with a surprising prescription for doing well and doing good.
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Daniel Silver The Wall Street Journal D'Souza asks the right questions about the new prosperity.
