Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Hill & Wang, September 2008. Hardcover. Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should--even that they must--expand in wealth indefinitely? In "The Great Delusion," the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and..... More
