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Creativity and Growth in: Edmund Phelps (2013), Mass Flourishing. How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change

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This article reviews the thesis presented by Edmund Phelps, Mass Flourishing. How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change (Princeton University Press, 2013) that modern economic growth is an indirect outcome of human creativity, and that the object of enlightened policy ought to be to promote this creativity, or flourishing, rather than economic growth per se. The book is a remarkable contribution to the literature on economic growth, with its focus on how entrepreneurship and innovation generates endogenous growth and, more importantly to the author, improves human satisfaction.

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  • Andrew C. Godley, 2014. "Creativity and Growth in: Edmund Phelps (2013), Mass Flourishing. How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge and Change," International Journal of the Economics of Business, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 255-260, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ijecbs:v:21:y:2014:i:2:p:255-260
    DOI: 10.1080/13571516.2014.919737
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