Bourgeois Equality
How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite.-Financial Times There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana. Why? Most economists-from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty-say the Great Enrichment since 1800 came from accumul…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-33404-2
- EAN: 9780226334042
- Produktnummer: 27857442
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 768 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'929 KB
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