Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
4/5
()
About this ebook
The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.
Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in Bourgeois Dignity, a fiercely contrarian history that wages a similar argument about economics in the West. Here she turns her attention to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was not the product of new markets and innovations, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private property, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, becoming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about markets and free enterprise finally became enthusiastic and encouraging of their inherent dignity.
An utterly fascinating sequel to her critically acclaimed book The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians—a work that will forever change our understanding of how the power of persuasion shapes our economic lives.
Read more from Deirdre Nansen Mc Closkey
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Economical Writing, Third Edition: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crossing: A Transgender Memoir Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Bourgeois Dignity
Related ebooks
Capitalism and Its Economics: A Critical History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Economic Thought: A Brief History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life after Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work was Created Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnderstanding the Process of Economic Change Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Liberty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes?: A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism: Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Idea of Decline in Western History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Economic Consequences of the Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unbearable Heaviness of Governing: The Obama Administration in Historical Perspective Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistorical Capitalism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Philosophy For You
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Loving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Courage to Be Happy: Discover the Power of Positive Psychology and Choose Happiness Every Day Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Four Loves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Denial of Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lying Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Human Condition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tao Te Ching: Six Translations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Experiencing God (2021 Edition): Knowing and Doing the Will of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The City of God Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Course in Miracles: Text, Workbook for Students, Manual for Teachers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Be Here Now Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Metaphors We Live By Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bhagavad Gita (in English): The Authentic English Translation for Accurate and Unbiased Understanding Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Bourgeois Dignity
14 ratings0 reviews