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Spirit of Capitalism : Nationalism and Economic Growth

eBook, English, 2009
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2009
1 online resource (560 pages)
9780674037922, 0674037928
1041149627
Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Another Take on How It All Began; 1. The Capitalist Spirit and the British Economic Miracle; 2. "The Great Seventeenth-Century Exception"; II. The Spread of the New Economic Consciousness on the European Continent; 3. The First Convert: France; 4. The Power of Concerted Action: Putting the Spirit of Capitalism to Work in Germany; III. The Asian Challenge: The Way of Japan; 5. Japanese Nationalism; 6. Racing and Fighting; IV. The Economic Civilization: The Spirit of Capitalism in the New World; 7. Searching for the American System; 8. The Thrust. Epilogue: Looking Backward from Year 2000Notes; Index