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<p>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.</p> <p>Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in <i>Bourgeois Dignity</i>, 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 and innovations, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private property, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, becoming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about

Who reads Bourgeois Dignity : Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World?

Author

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Publisher

Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press ; Bristol: University Presses Marketing [distributor]

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226556659

Category

history

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Business

Rating

4.11 / 5 (140 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14