The Virtue of Prosperity
Autor Dinesh D'Souzaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2001
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780684868158
ISBN-10: 0684868156
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 141 x 217 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:01000
Editura: Free Press
ISBN-10: 0684868156
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 141 x 217 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:01000
Editura: Free Press
Notă biografică
DINESH DSOUZA has had a prominent career as a writer, scholar, public intellectual, and filmmaker. Born in India, DSouza came to the U.S. as an exchange student at the age of 17 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College. The author of many bestselling books includingAmerica,The Big Lie,Death of a Nation, andUnited States of Socialism, he is also the creator of three of the top ten highest-grossing political documentaries ever made.
Descriere
By the controversial social critic and author of "Illiberal Education" comes a big-hearted book that revels the pursuit of wealth through capitalism as morally edifying.
Cuprins
Contents
INTRODUCTION: GEEK CHIC: Anthropologist in a Strange Land
CHAPTER ONE: A WORLD WITHOUT LIMITS
What's New About the New Economy
CHAPTER TWO: THE GATHERING STORM
Mass Affluence and Its Discontents
CHAPTER THREE: CREATED UNEQUAL
Merit and the Ones Left Behind
CHAPTER FOUR: THE LOTTERY OF SUCCESS
Who Wins, Who Loses
CHAPTER FIVE: EYE OF THE NEEDLE
The Moral Critique of Prosperity
CHAPTER SIX: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST
Goodbye Nature, Family, and Community?
CHAPTER SEVEN: A FUTURE THAT WORKS
Why Techno-Capitalism Prevailed
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONQUEST OF HUMAN NATURE
Technology and the Remaking of Humanity
CHAPTER NINE: THE SEDUCTION
The Quest for the Posthuman
CHAPTER TEN: THE GIFT
The Things That Matter the Most
NOTES
INDEX
INTRODUCTION: GEEK CHIC: Anthropologist in a Strange Land
CHAPTER ONE: A WORLD WITHOUT LIMITS
What's New About the New Economy
CHAPTER TWO: THE GATHERING STORM
Mass Affluence and Its Discontents
CHAPTER THREE: CREATED UNEQUAL
Merit and the Ones Left Behind
CHAPTER FOUR: THE LOTTERY OF SUCCESS
Who Wins, Who Loses
CHAPTER FIVE: EYE OF THE NEEDLE
The Moral Critique of Prosperity
CHAPTER SIX: THE WORLD WE HAVE LOST
Goodbye Nature, Family, and Community?
CHAPTER SEVEN: A FUTURE THAT WORKS
Why Techno-Capitalism Prevailed
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE CONQUEST OF HUMAN NATURE
Technology and the Remaking of Humanity
CHAPTER NINE: THE SEDUCTION
The Quest for the Posthuman
CHAPTER TEN: THE GIFT
The Things That Matter the Most
NOTES
INDEX