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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Deirdre N. Mccloskey
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 768 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 265 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1200.
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana. Why? Most economists--from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty--say the Great Enrichment since 1800 came from accumulated capital. McCloskey disagrees, fiercely. Our riches, she argues, were made not by piling brick on brick, bank balance ... Read more
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana. Why? Most economists--from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty--say the Great Enrichment since 1800 came from accumulated capital. McCloskey disagrees, fiercely. Our riches, she argues, were made not by piling brick on brick, bank balance ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
768
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226333991
SKU
V9780226333991
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About Deirdre N. Mccloskey
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is an emerita distinguished professor of economics and of history, and professor of English and of communications at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of sixteen other books, including If You're So Smart, The Secret Sins of Economics, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Crossing: A Memoir, all published by the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
A sparkling book. . . . McCloskey makes a convincing case.
Martin Wolf Financial Times, Best Books of Early 2016 McCloskey has spent a long and distinguished career asserting the efficacy of free markets in goods and labour. . . . Unusually versed in philosophy and literature, she has acted as something of a domestic chaplain ... Read more
Martin Wolf Financial Times, Best Books of Early 2016 McCloskey has spent a long and distinguished career asserting the efficacy of free markets in goods and labour. . . . Unusually versed in philosophy and literature, she has acted as something of a domestic chaplain ... Read more