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100			_aMcCloskey, Deirdre N.
245			_aBourgeois dignity : _bwhy economics can't explain the modern world / _cDeirdre N. McCloskey.
260			_aChicago : _bUniversity of Chicago Press, _c2010.
300			_axvi, 571 p. ; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [493]-533) and index.
520			_aThe 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.
530			_aBANG/2011/CRB/1032
546			_aEnglish
650			_aEconomic history. Economics--Philosophy. Middle class. Europe--Economic conditions.
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