Edmund Phelps on Mass Flourishing
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The Transformation of the 19th Century
A, dickens loved the energy of london. He used to take what were called midnight walks. Night walks through the city, hes restless person, sometimes couldn't sleep. And he saw businesses as a the salvation of people,. Giving them things to work on and give giving them activities to get involved in. A, it's absolutely, he was, dickens was excited by the times in which he was living. But you can't say that, a, Dickens was a, a sot of a documentarian of a misery in the nineteenth century. That's just, that's just not correct.
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