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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 and the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was not the product of new markets, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. 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.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Economic history

• Full title: Bourgeois Dignity
• Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• EAN: 9780226556741
• ISBN: 0226556743
• ID: 04547710
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 876 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 229 × 35 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 2011

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