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What makes nations “flourish”? Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps pinpoints the modern values in the West that fueled widespread innovation by empowering millions of people to think of, develop, & market innumerable new products & processes. Such dynamic grassroots innovation in turn created not just material wealth, but meaningful work, self-expression, & personal growth for growing numbers of its citizens —i.e. “mass flourishing.” But now, Phelps argues in “Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, & Change,” the sources of that prosperity are in danger. W
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