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

摘要

Vertigo. That's the sensation I experienced when reading Edmund Phelps's Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. The fault, however, isn't Phelps's; it's mine. I read Phelps's book while still working my way through Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014). Pondering Piketty's obsession with differences in monetary incomes and wealth while studying Phelps's explanation of the dynamism of modern market economies is an ideal recipe for mental disorientation.