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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.(Book review)
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January 1, 2006
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth Benjamin M. Friedman New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, 570 pp.
Benjamin Friedman's The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth is magnificent and flawed. It is a work of astounding scholarship and exhilarating intellectual imagination as well as disappointing partisanship and theoretical fragility.
Moral Consequences is primarily an extended defense of the hypothesis that steady economic growth "fosters greater opportunity, tolerance of diversity, social mobility, commitment to fairness and dedication to democracy" (p. 4). The hypothesis is defended with a spectacular range of evidence from disciplines including economic and ...
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