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Bourgeois equality : how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey.

By: Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: xlii, 787 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226333991 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.064 MCC
Contents:
Part i a great enrichment happened and will happen ; Part ii explanations from left and right have proven false ; Part iii bourgeois life had been rhetorically revalued in britain at the onset of the industrial revolution ; Part iv a pro bourgeois rhetoric was forming in england around 1700 ; Part v yet england had recently lagged in bourgeois ideology compared with the netherlands ; Part vi reformation revolt revolution and reading increased the liberty and dignity of ordinary europeans ; Part vii nowhere before on a large scale had bourgeois or other commoners been honored ; Part viii words and ideas caused the modern world ; Part ix the history and economics have been misunderstood ; Part x that is rhetoric made us but can readily unmake us .
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Part i a great enrichment happened and will happen ;
Part ii explanations from left and right have proven false ;
Part iii bourgeois life had been rhetorically revalued in britain at the onset of the industrial revolution ;
Part iv a pro bourgeois rhetoric was forming in england around 1700 ;
Part v yet england had recently lagged in bourgeois ideology compared with the netherlands ;
Part vi reformation revolt revolution and reading increased the liberty and dignity of ordinary europeans ;
Part vii nowhere before on a large scale had bourgeois or other commoners been honored ;
Part viii words and ideas caused the modern world ;
Part ix the history and economics have been misunderstood ;
Part x that is rhetoric made us but can readily unmake us .