Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

In Mass Flourishing, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps argues that the pervasive innovation that swept several nations in the nineteenth century was not primarily sparked by the discoveries of scientists and explorers. It was sparked mainly by millions of minds--from visionaries like Henry Ford and Steve Jobs to ordinary people working throughout the economy. And the fruit of this grassroots dynamism wasn't just more income and wealth. It was mass flourishing--the wide-scale experience of the "good life."