The phrase "false prosperity" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a temporary or deceptive state of financial or material success. Example: "The country's economy was built on false prosperity, with inflated housing prices and unsustainable consumer spending."
"For the past 20 years Greece experienced a false euphoria, a false prosperity.
A false prosperity ensued in which the wool trade boomed, but so also did enclosures with all their explosive potential.
In late 2009 it became clear that Greece had been living through a period of false prosperity and was in effect bankrupt.
Wolfe writes: The leaders of the nation had fixed their gaze so long upon the illusions of false prosperity that they had forgotten what America looked like.
As the world indulged in a bubble of false prosperity and excessive materialism, should universities — in their research, teaching and writing — have made greater efforts to expose the patterns of risk and denial?
Last month the president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, contributed a stirring essay to The Times regretting that educational institutions did not make stronger efforts to assert the fundamental values of pure intellectual inquiry while "the world indulged in a bubble of false prosperity and excessive materialism".
Prolonged periods of war and false economic prosperity largely led to its demise, and it is feared that America, by repeating Rome's mistakes, is headed toward a similar collapse.
False-front prosperity is constructed in Potemkin villages for politicians to be photographed in front of.
As more and more wealth in this country has been generated by financial transactions, many of which resemble shell games, the Randian echo in my mind kept whispering that this was false and unsustainable prosperity.
More than 85% of these women have come from Nigeria's Edo state in the south of the country, where traffickers have historically exploited chronic poverty, discrimination, a failing education system and lack of opportunities for young women to sell false promises of prosperity in Europe.
Spring phase: high levels of production, increasing wellness, rising inflation; Summer: economic 'peak' and high inflation followed by societal doubts; Autumn: reduction of inflation leads to a credit boom, which creates a false plateau of prosperity that ends in a speculative bubble; Winter: excess capacity worked off by massive debt rejection, commodity deflation and economic depression.
