Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

A Nobel Prize–winning economist makes a new argument about the real roots of prosperity—and why they are under threat today

In this book, 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, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"—meaningful work,...