Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey

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

Deirdre N. McCloskey

571 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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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 a...

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