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Wikipedia May 25, 2026 at 04:43 PM

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Wiley
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This publisher is incorrect. Authoritative bibliographic records for *The Birth of Plenty* list the 2004 book as published by McGraw-Hill, while "Wiley" belongs to a different 2004 book with the unrelated ISBN shown in this infobox.

Full reasoning

The infobox metadata appears to have been copied from a different book.

For The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created, Google Books lists the publisher as McGraw-Hill Companies, Incorporated and gives the print ISBN as 0071421920 / 9780071421928. Publishers Weekly's contemporary review also identifies the book as McGraw-Hill.

By contrast, Open Library shows that Wiley is the publisher of The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes by David Darling — the unrelated book that carries the ISBN 0471270474 and the August 11, 2004 date also shown in this Wikipedia infobox. That makes the "Wiley" entry here demonstrably mismatched to The Birth of Plenty.

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August 11, 2004
Correction

This publication date is wrong for *The Birth of Plenty*. Bibliographic records place the book's 2004 McGraw-Hill edition in spring 2004; August 11, 2004 is the date of a different Wiley book whose metadata was apparently copied here.

Full reasoning

The cited date does not match authoritative records for The Birth of Plenty.

Google Books lists The Birth of Plenty as published by McGraw-Hill Companies, Incorporated on March 23, 2004. Open Library's record for the same edition lists April 2, 2004 and the same McGraw-Hill ISBN 0071421920 / 9780071421928. Publishers Weekly reviewed the book on April 5, 2004, which is also inconsistent with an August 11 release.

Meanwhile, Open Library shows that August 11, 2004 is the publication date of David Darling's unrelated Wiley title The Universal Book of Mathematics, which also matches the infobox's incorrect ISBN 0471270474. So the August 11, 2004 date is clearly borrowed from the wrong book.

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400
Correction

This page count is incorrect for *The Birth of Plenty*. Contemporary bibliographic sources list the 2004 book at 420 pages; "400" is part of the unrelated Wiley metadata copied into this infobox.

Full reasoning

Independent bibliographic sources for The Birth of Plenty do not support a 400-page count.

Google Books lists The Birth of Plenty at 420 pages, and Publishers Weekly's contemporary review likewise describes it as "McGraw-Hill, $29.95 (420pp)". The surrounding infobox fields strongly suggest a copy/paste from a different book: Open Library shows that David Darling's The Universal Book of Mathematics — not Bernstein's book — was published by Wiley on August 11, 2004 and has 400 pages with ISBN 0471270474.

So the "400" entry is not the page count for The Birth of Plenty; it matches the unrelated Wiley title instead.

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0471270474
Correction

This ISBN is incorrect. *The Birth of Plenty* is cataloged under ISBN 0071421920 / 9780071421928; 0471270474 belongs to David Darling's unrelated *The Universal Book of Mathematics*.

Full reasoning

The ISBN in the infobox is for a different book.

For The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created, Google Books lists ISBN 0071421920 / 9780071421928, and Open Library gives the same identifiers for the 2004 McGraw-Hill edition. Publishers Weekly's review also uses 978-0-07-142192-8.

Open Library separately shows that 0471270474 / 9780471270478 belongs to The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes by David Darling, published by Wiley on August 11, 2004. That exact unrelated metadata also appears elsewhere in this infobox, confirming the ISBN is mismatched.

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