TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernstein,William J.
TI  - The birth of plenty: how the prosperity of the modern world was created 
SN  - 9780071747042
AV  - HC79.W4 B47 2004b
U1  - 339.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Quality of life
N1  - An hypothesis of wealth -- Property -- Reason -- Capital -- Power, speed, and light -- Synthesis of growth -- The winners : Holland and England -- Runners-up -- The last -- God, culture, mammon, and the hydonic treadmill -- The great trade-off -- Mannon and Mars : the winner's curse -- The end of growth? -- When, where, and whither
ER  -