Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

Name: Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780226556741

ISBN-10: 0226556743

ISBN-13: 9780226556741

Edition: 2011

Authors: Deirdre N. McCloskey

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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…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.90" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.738