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- Extent
- xlii, 787 pages
- Contents
-
- 14
- 30
- Change Was in Social Habits of the Lip, Not in Psychology
- 277
- 31
- And the Change Was Specifically British
- 285
- Part V
- Yet England Had Recently Lagged in Bourgeois Ideology, Compared with the Netherlands
- 32
- Bourgeois Shakespeare Disdained Trade and the Bourgeoisie
- 3
- 295
- 33
- As Did Elizabethan England Generally
- 305
- 34
- Aristocratic England, for Example, Scorned Measurement
- 316
- 35
- Dutch Preached Bourgeois Virtue
- 326
- Then Many of Us Shot Up the Blade of a Hockey Stick
- 36
- And the Dutch Bourgeoisie Was Virtuous
- 336
- 37
- For Instance, Bourgeois Holland Was Tolerant, and Not for Prudence Only
- 345
- Part VI
- Reformation, Revolt, Revolution, and Reading Increased the Liberty and Dignity of Ordinary Europeans
- 38
- Causes Were Local, Temporary, and Unpredictable
- 21
- 359
- 39
- "Democratic" Church Governance Emboldened People
- 367
- 40
- Theology of Happiness Changed circa 1700
- 377
- 41
- Printing and Reading and Fragmentation Sustained the Dignity of Commoners
- 388
- 4
- 42
- Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity
- 401
- 43
- Ideas Made for a Bourgeois Revaluation
- 410
- 44
- Rhetorical Change Was Necessary, and Maybe Sufficient
- 417
- Part VII
- As Your Own Life Shows
- Nowhere Before on a Large Scale Had Bourgeois or Other Commoners Been Honored
- 45
- Talk Had Been Hostile to Betterment
- 427
- 46
- Hostility Was Ancient
- 440
- 47
- Yet Some Christians Anticipated a Respected Bourgeoisie
- 450
- 30
- 48
- And Betterment, Though Long Disdained, Developed Its Own Vested Interests
- 459
- 49
- And Then Turned
- 468
- 50
- On the Whole, However, the Bourgeoisies and Their Bettering Projects Have Been Precarious
- 476
- Part VIII
- 5
- Words and Ideas Caused the Modern World
- 51
- Sweet Talk Rules the Economy
- 489
- 52
- And Its Rhetoric Can Change Quickly
- 499
- 53
- It Was Not a Deep Cultural Change
- 505
- Poor Were Made Much Better Off
- 54
- Yes, It Was Ideas, Not Interests or Institutions, That Changed, Suddenly, in Northwestern Europe
- 511
- 55
- Elsewhere Ideas about the Bourgeoisie Did Not Change
- 520
- Fourth Question: What Are The Dangers?
- Part IX
- History and Economics Have Been Misunderstood
- 56
- 37
- Change in Ideas Contradicts Many Ideas from the Political Middle, 1890-1980
- 531
- 57
- And Many Polanyish Ideas from the Left
- 543
- 58
- Yet Polanyi Was Right about Embeddedness
- 553
- 59
- Trade-Tested Betterment Is Democratic in Consumption
- First Question: What is to be Explained?
- 6
- 560
- 60
- And Liberating in Production
- 569
- 61
- And Therefore Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Better for the Poor
- 574
- Part X
- That Is, Rhetoric Made Us, but Can Readily Unmake Us
- 62
- Inequality Is Not the Problem
- After 1848 the Clerisy Converted to Antibetterment
- 589
- 63
- Clerisy Betrayed the Bourgeois Deal, and Approved the Bolshevik and Bismarckian Deals
- 597
- 64
- Anticonsumerism and Pro-Bohemianism Were Fruits of the Antibetterraent Reaction
- 608
- 65
- Despite the Clerisy's Doubts
- 45
- 618
- 66
- What Matters Ethically Is Not Equality of Outcome, but the Condition of the Working Class
- 631
- 67
- A Change in Rhetoric Made Modernity, and Can Spread It
- 640
- 7
- Despite Doubts from the Left
- 53
- 8
- Or from the Right and Middle
- 61
- 9
- Part I
- Great International Divergence Can Be Overcome
- 73
- Second Question: Why not the Conventional Explanations?
- Part II
- Explanations from Left and Right Have Proven False
- 10
- Divergence Was Not Caused by Imperialism
- 85
- 11
- Poverty Cannot Be Overcome from the Left by Overthrowing "Capitalism"
- A Great Enrichment Happened, and Will Happen
- 93
- 12
- "Accumulate, Accumulate" Is Not What Happened in History
- 101
- 13
- But Neither Can Poverty Be Overcome from the Right by Implanting "Institutions"
- 111
- 14
- Because Ethics Matters, and Changes, More
- 117
- 1
- 15
- And the Oomph of Institutional Change Is Far Too Small
- 129
- 16
- Most Governmental Institutions Make Us Poorer
- 139
- Third Question: What, Then, Explains the Enrichment?
- Part III
- Bourgeois Life Had Been Rhetorically Revalued in Britain at the Onset of the Industrial Revolution
- 17
- World Is Pretty Rich, but Once Was Poor
- It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That Even Dr. Johnson and Jane Austen Exhibit the Revaluation
- 151
- 18
- No Woman but a Blockhead Wrote for Anything but Money
- 161
- 19
- Adam Smith Exhibits Bourgeois Theory at Its Ethical Best
- 172
- 20
- Smith Was Not a Mr. Max U, but Rather the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
- 5
- 184
- 21
- That Is, He Was No Reductionist, Economistic or Otherwise
- 193
- 22
- And He Formulated the Bourgeois Deal
- 199
- 23
- Ben Franklin Was Bourgeois, and He Embodied Betterment
- 210
- 2
- 24
- By 1848 a Bourgeois Ideology Had Wholly Triumphed
- 223
- Part IV
- A Pro-Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Forming in England Around 1700
- 25
- Word "Honest" Shows the Changing Attitude toward the Aristocracy and the Bourgeoisie
- 235
- 26
- And So Does the Word "Eerlijk"
- For Malthusian and Other Reasons, Very Poor
- 247
- 27
- Defoe, Addison, and Steele Show It, Too
- 255
- 28
- Bourgeois Revaluation Becomes a Commonplace, as in the London Merchant
- 263
- 29
- Bourgeois Europe, for Example, Loved Measurement
- 271
- Isbn
- 9780226333991
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- Bourgeois equality : how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world
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- Bourgeois equality
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- how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world
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- Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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- Technological innovations
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- Contents
-
- 14
- 30
- Change Was in Social Habits of the Lip, Not in Psychology
- 277
- 31
- And the Change Was Specifically British
- 285
- Part V
- Yet England Had Recently Lagged in Bourgeois Ideology, Compared with the Netherlands
- 32
- Bourgeois Shakespeare Disdained Trade and the Bourgeoisie
- 3
- 295
- 33
- As Did Elizabethan England Generally
- 305
- 34
- Aristocratic England, for Example, Scorned Measurement
- 316
- 35
- Dutch Preached Bourgeois Virtue
- 326
- Then Many of Us Shot Up the Blade of a Hockey Stick
- 36
- And the Dutch Bourgeoisie Was Virtuous
- 336
- 37
- For Instance, Bourgeois Holland Was Tolerant, and Not for Prudence Only
- 345
- Part VI
- Reformation, Revolt, Revolution, and Reading Increased the Liberty and Dignity of Ordinary Europeans
- 38
- Causes Were Local, Temporary, and Unpredictable
- 21
- 359
- 39
- "Democratic" Church Governance Emboldened People
- 367
- 40
- Theology of Happiness Changed circa 1700
- 377
- 41
- Printing and Reading and Fragmentation Sustained the Dignity of Commoners
- 388
- 4
- 42
- Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity
- 401
- 43
- Ideas Made for a Bourgeois Revaluation
- 410
- 44
- Rhetorical Change Was Necessary, and Maybe Sufficient
- 417
- Part VII
- As Your Own Life Shows
- Nowhere Before on a Large Scale Had Bourgeois or Other Commoners Been Honored
- 45
- Talk Had Been Hostile to Betterment
- 427
- 46
- Hostility Was Ancient
- 440
- 47
- Yet Some Christians Anticipated a Respected Bourgeoisie
- 450
- 30
- 48
- And Betterment, Though Long Disdained, Developed Its Own Vested Interests
- 459
- 49
- And Then Turned
- 468
- 50
- On the Whole, However, the Bourgeoisies and Their Bettering Projects Have Been Precarious
- 476
- Part VIII
- 5
- Words and Ideas Caused the Modern World
- 51
- Sweet Talk Rules the Economy
- 489
- 52
- And Its Rhetoric Can Change Quickly
- 499
- 53
- It Was Not a Deep Cultural Change
- 505
- Poor Were Made Much Better Off
- 54
- Yes, It Was Ideas, Not Interests or Institutions, That Changed, Suddenly, in Northwestern Europe
- 511
- 55
- Elsewhere Ideas about the Bourgeoisie Did Not Change
- 520
- Fourth Question: What Are The Dangers?
- Part IX
- History and Economics Have Been Misunderstood
- 56
- 37
- Change in Ideas Contradicts Many Ideas from the Political Middle, 1890-1980
- 531
- 57
- And Many Polanyish Ideas from the Left
- 543
- 58
- Yet Polanyi Was Right about Embeddedness
- 553
- 59
- Trade-Tested Betterment Is Democratic in Consumption
- First Question: What is to be Explained?
- 6
- 560
- 60
- And Liberating in Production
- 569
- 61
- And Therefore Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Better for the Poor
- 574
- Part X
- That Is, Rhetoric Made Us, but Can Readily Unmake Us
- 62
- Inequality Is Not the Problem
- After 1848 the Clerisy Converted to Antibetterment
- 589
- 63
- Clerisy Betrayed the Bourgeois Deal, and Approved the Bolshevik and Bismarckian Deals
- 597
- 64
- Anticonsumerism and Pro-Bohemianism Were Fruits of the Antibetterraent Reaction
- 608
- 65
- Despite the Clerisy's Doubts
- 45
- 618
- 66
- What Matters Ethically Is Not Equality of Outcome, but the Condition of the Working Class
- 631
- 67
- A Change in Rhetoric Made Modernity, and Can Spread It
- 640
- 7
- Despite Doubts from the Left
- 53
- 8
- Or from the Right and Middle
- 61
- 9
- Part I
- Great International Divergence Can Be Overcome
- 73
- Second Question: Why not the Conventional Explanations?
- Part II
- Explanations from Left and Right Have Proven False
- 10
- Divergence Was Not Caused by Imperialism
- 85
- 11
- Poverty Cannot Be Overcome from the Left by Overthrowing "Capitalism"
- A Great Enrichment Happened, and Will Happen
- 93
- 12
- "Accumulate, Accumulate" Is Not What Happened in History
- 101
- 13
- But Neither Can Poverty Be Overcome from the Right by Implanting "Institutions"
- 111
- 14
- Because Ethics Matters, and Changes, More
- 117
- 1
- 15
- And the Oomph of Institutional Change Is Far Too Small
- 129
- 16
- Most Governmental Institutions Make Us Poorer
- 139
- Third Question: What, Then, Explains the Enrichment?
- Part III
- Bourgeois Life Had Been Rhetorically Revalued in Britain at the Onset of the Industrial Revolution
- 17
- World Is Pretty Rich, but Once Was Poor
- It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That Even Dr. Johnson and Jane Austen Exhibit the Revaluation
- 151
- 18
- No Woman but a Blockhead Wrote for Anything but Money
- 161
- 19
- Adam Smith Exhibits Bourgeois Theory at Its Ethical Best
- 172
- 20
- Smith Was Not a Mr. Max U, but Rather the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
- 5
- 184
- 21
- That Is, He Was No Reductionist, Economistic or Otherwise
- 193
- 22
- And He Formulated the Bourgeois Deal
- 199
- 23
- Ben Franklin Was Bourgeois, and He Embodied Betterment
- 210
- 2
- 24
- By 1848 a Bourgeois Ideology Had Wholly Triumphed
- 223
- Part IV
- A Pro-Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Forming in England Around 1700
- 25
- Word "Honest" Shows the Changing Attitude toward the Aristocracy and the Bourgeoisie
- 235
- 26
- And So Does the Word "Eerlijk"
- For Malthusian and Other Reasons, Very Poor
- 247
- 27
- Defoe, Addison, and Steele Show It, Too
- 255
- 28
- Bourgeois Revaluation Becomes a Commonplace, as in the London Merchant
- 263
- 29
- Bourgeois Europe, for Example, Loved Measurement
- 271
- Control code
- ocn920017440
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xlii, 787 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226333991
- Lccn
- 2015035276
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- rdamedia
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- 338.064 M132 ; XX-N ; [A16BP035, #8, 3@$45.00, DLG/RT ].
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- (Sirsi) 920017440
- (OCoLC)920017440
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- Bourgeois equality : how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
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- Contents
-
- 14
- 30
- Change Was in Social Habits of the Lip, Not in Psychology
- 277
- 31
- And the Change Was Specifically British
- 285
- Part V
- Yet England Had Recently Lagged in Bourgeois Ideology, Compared with the Netherlands
- 32
- Bourgeois Shakespeare Disdained Trade and the Bourgeoisie
- 3
- 295
- 33
- As Did Elizabethan England Generally
- 305
- 34
- Aristocratic England, for Example, Scorned Measurement
- 316
- 35
- Dutch Preached Bourgeois Virtue
- 326
- Then Many of Us Shot Up the Blade of a Hockey Stick
- 36
- And the Dutch Bourgeoisie Was Virtuous
- 336
- 37
- For Instance, Bourgeois Holland Was Tolerant, and Not for Prudence Only
- 345
- Part VI
- Reformation, Revolt, Revolution, and Reading Increased the Liberty and Dignity of Ordinary Europeans
- 38
- Causes Were Local, Temporary, and Unpredictable
- 21
- 359
- 39
- "Democratic" Church Governance Emboldened People
- 367
- 40
- Theology of Happiness Changed circa 1700
- 377
- 41
- Printing and Reading and Fragmentation Sustained the Dignity of Commoners
- 388
- 4
- 42
- Political Ideas Mattered for Equal Liberty and Dignity
- 401
- 43
- Ideas Made for a Bourgeois Revaluation
- 410
- 44
- Rhetorical Change Was Necessary, and Maybe Sufficient
- 417
- Part VII
- As Your Own Life Shows
- Nowhere Before on a Large Scale Had Bourgeois or Other Commoners Been Honored
- 45
- Talk Had Been Hostile to Betterment
- 427
- 46
- Hostility Was Ancient
- 440
- 47
- Yet Some Christians Anticipated a Respected Bourgeoisie
- 450
- 30
- 48
- And Betterment, Though Long Disdained, Developed Its Own Vested Interests
- 459
- 49
- And Then Turned
- 468
- 50
- On the Whole, However, the Bourgeoisies and Their Bettering Projects Have Been Precarious
- 476
- Part VIII
- 5
- Words and Ideas Caused the Modern World
- 51
- Sweet Talk Rules the Economy
- 489
- 52
- And Its Rhetoric Can Change Quickly
- 499
- 53
- It Was Not a Deep Cultural Change
- 505
- Poor Were Made Much Better Off
- 54
- Yes, It Was Ideas, Not Interests or Institutions, That Changed, Suddenly, in Northwestern Europe
- 511
- 55
- Elsewhere Ideas about the Bourgeoisie Did Not Change
- 520
- Fourth Question: What Are The Dangers?
- Part IX
- History and Economics Have Been Misunderstood
- 56
- 37
- Change in Ideas Contradicts Many Ideas from the Political Middle, 1890-1980
- 531
- 57
- And Many Polanyish Ideas from the Left
- 543
- 58
- Yet Polanyi Was Right about Embeddedness
- 553
- 59
- Trade-Tested Betterment Is Democratic in Consumption
- First Question: What is to be Explained?
- 6
- 560
- 60
- And Liberating in Production
- 569
- 61
- And Therefore Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Better for the Poor
- 574
- Part X
- That Is, Rhetoric Made Us, but Can Readily Unmake Us
- 62
- Inequality Is Not the Problem
- After 1848 the Clerisy Converted to Antibetterment
- 589
- 63
- Clerisy Betrayed the Bourgeois Deal, and Approved the Bolshevik and Bismarckian Deals
- 597
- 64
- Anticonsumerism and Pro-Bohemianism Were Fruits of the Antibetterraent Reaction
- 608
- 65
- Despite the Clerisy's Doubts
- 45
- 618
- 66
- What Matters Ethically Is Not Equality of Outcome, but the Condition of the Working Class
- 631
- 67
- A Change in Rhetoric Made Modernity, and Can Spread It
- 640
- 7
- Despite Doubts from the Left
- 53
- 8
- Or from the Right and Middle
- 61
- 9
- Part I
- Great International Divergence Can Be Overcome
- 73
- Second Question: Why not the Conventional Explanations?
- Part II
- Explanations from Left and Right Have Proven False
- 10
- Divergence Was Not Caused by Imperialism
- 85
- 11
- Poverty Cannot Be Overcome from the Left by Overthrowing "Capitalism"
- A Great Enrichment Happened, and Will Happen
- 93
- 12
- "Accumulate, Accumulate" Is Not What Happened in History
- 101
- 13
- But Neither Can Poverty Be Overcome from the Right by Implanting "Institutions"
- 111
- 14
- Because Ethics Matters, and Changes, More
- 117
- 1
- 15
- And the Oomph of Institutional Change Is Far Too Small
- 129
- 16
- Most Governmental Institutions Make Us Poorer
- 139
- Third Question: What, Then, Explains the Enrichment?
- Part III
- Bourgeois Life Had Been Rhetorically Revalued in Britain at the Onset of the Industrial Revolution
- 17
- World Is Pretty Rich, but Once Was Poor
- It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That Even Dr. Johnson and Jane Austen Exhibit the Revaluation
- 151
- 18
- No Woman but a Blockhead Wrote for Anything but Money
- 161
- 19
- Adam Smith Exhibits Bourgeois Theory at Its Ethical Best
- 172
- 20
- Smith Was Not a Mr. Max U, but Rather the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists
- 5
- 184
- 21
- That Is, He Was No Reductionist, Economistic or Otherwise
- 193
- 22
- And He Formulated the Bourgeois Deal
- 199
- 23
- Ben Franklin Was Bourgeois, and He Embodied Betterment
- 210
- 2
- 24
- By 1848 a Bourgeois Ideology Had Wholly Triumphed
- 223
- Part IV
- A Pro-Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Forming in England Around 1700
- 25
- Word "Honest" Shows the Changing Attitude toward the Aristocracy and the Bourgeoisie
- 235
- 26
- And So Does the Word "Eerlijk"
- For Malthusian and Other Reasons, Very Poor
- 247
- 27
- Defoe, Addison, and Steele Show It, Too
- 255
- 28
- Bourgeois Revaluation Becomes a Commonplace, as in the London Merchant
- 263
- 29
- Bourgeois Europe, for Example, Loved Measurement
- 271
- Control code
- ocn920017440
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xlii, 787 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226333991
- Lccn
- 2015035276
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- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Note
- 338.064 M132 ; XX-N ; [A16BP035, #8, 3@$45.00, DLG/RT ].
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)920017440
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