Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich : How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World /

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen (Autor), Carden, Art (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Capitalism.
Economic history > Moral and ethical aspects.
Economic history > 1750-1918.
Economic history > 1918-
Economic history > 1918-.
Economic history-1750-1918.
Economic history-1918-.
Economic history-Moral and ethical aspects.
Economics > Philosophy.
Economics-Philosophy.
Free enterprise > Social aspects.
Free enterprise-Social aspects.
Liberalism > Economic aspects.
Liberalism-Economic aspects.
Libertarianism > Economic aspects.
Libertarianism-Economic aspects.
Liberty > Economic aspects.
Liberty-Economic aspects.
Progress.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
bourgeois, wealth, money, economist, economics, economy, historian, historical, national, modernity, liberalism, egalitarian, journalist, controversial, liberty, innovation, industrial revolution, capital, holland, sweden, japan, international, 1800s, india, china, hierarchy, capitalism, nostalgia, pessimism, poverty, class, classism, social studies, enrichment, racism, race, rhetoric, ideology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Part One. POVERTY IS ON THE RUN
  • 1. Liberalism Liberated
  • 2. It's the End of the World as They Knew It, and You Should Feel Pretty Good
  • 3. Nostalgia and Pessimism Worsen Poverty
  • 4. Under Liberalism the Formerly Poor Can Flourish Ethically and Spiritually
  • 5. Consider the Possibility That Your Doubts Might Be Mistaken
  • 6. Pessimism Has Been since 1800 a Rotten Predictor
  • 7. Even about the Environment
  • 8. In Fact, None of the Seven Old Pessimisms Makes a Lot of Sense
  • 9. Nor Do the Three New Ones
  • 10. So to Get Better, the World Had Better Keep Its Ethical Wits about It
  • 11. And True Liberalism Celebrates a Life Beyond Wealth
  • Part Two. ENRICHMENT DIDN'T COME FOR THE REASONS YOU IMAGINE
  • 12. Liberal Ideas, Not European Horrors or Heroism, Explain the Great Enrichment
  • 13. Liberalism Supported Innovism and the Profi t Test
  • 14. The Great Enrichment Did Not Come from Resources or Railways or Property Rights
  • 15. Nor Thrift or "Capitalism"
  • 16. Schooling and Science Were Not the Fairy Dust
  • 17. It Wasn't Imperialism
  • 18. Nor Slavery
  • 19. Nor Wage Slavery Ended by Unions and Regulation
  • Part Three. IT CAME BECAUSE IDEAS, ETHICS, RHETORIC, AND IDEOLOGY CHANGED
  • 20. The Talk and the Deals Changed in Northwestern Europe
  • 21. That Is, Ethics and Rhetoric Changed
  • 22. "Honest" Shows the Change
  • 23. And "Happiness" Itself Changed
  • 24. The Change in Valuation Showed in English Plays, Poems, and Novels
  • Part Four. THE CAUSES OF THE CAUSES WERE NOT RACIAL OR ANCIENT
  • 25. Happy Accidents Led to the Revaluation
  • 26. And Then Old Adam Smith Revealed / The Virtues of the Bourgeois Deal
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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