The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth

by Steven Stoll

Book Overview

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? InThe Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809095068
• ISBN13: 9780809095063
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.5"