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“Flourishing is the heart of prospering—engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“and attitudes that would enable and encourage attempts at”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“The recognition by a people that their prosperity depends on the breadth and depth of their innovative activity is of huge importance. Nations unaware”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“...we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three times the medieval level, as most people in Britain, America, France, and the German lands came to enjoy in the 19th century.”
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“This book is my response to these developments: It is an appreciation of the flourishing that was the humanistic treasure of the modern era. It is also a plea to restore what has been lost and not to reject out of hand the modern values that inspired the broad prosperity of modern societies.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
“the sole problem was the terrible unawareness.”
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
― Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
