Bourgeois equality : how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world /
by McCloskey, Deirdre N.
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BookPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 768 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780226333991 (hbk.) :; 022633399X (hbk.) :.Classification number: 338.064 MCCSubject(s): Technological innovations -- Economic aspects | Income distribution -- History | Cost and standard of living -- History | Industry | IndustrySummary: 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 on bank balance, but by piling idea on idea.'
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| 336.4109 DAR Back from the brink | 337.142 VAR Adults in the room : my battle with Europe's deep establishment / | 338.0409 TRU Trump : | 338.064 MCC Bourgeois equality : | 338.0941 MAR How Britain worked | 338.209 CON Material world : a substantial story of our past and future / | 338.2094 COY The riches beneath our feet: |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 on bank balance, but by piling idea on idea.'
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