- Economic history, Philosophy, Economic conditions, Economics
Bourgeois Dignity turns 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 or imperial theft, but rather of shifting opinions about the economy.
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- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Deirdre N. McCloskey
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 571
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780226556659
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