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Revolution or Renaissance : Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
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ISBN: 0776606727 9786613667564 0776617737 1280690623 077662718X 9780776617732 9781280690624 9780776606729 Year: 2008 Publisher: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press

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In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world - economics and culture - to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet. After tracing the evolution of the economic age from the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present, he turns his attention to culture --

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