The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And...
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Author: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
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Language: English
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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Dhs. 138.17
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Dhs. 138.17
Author: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"--all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.

McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism's critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life's work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism--and a surprising page-turner.

Author: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 634
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780226556642


Review Citation(s):
Books & Culture 11/01/2007 pg. 37

About the Author
Deirdre N. McCloskey is distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books are Crossing: A Memoir and If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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