Bourgeois Dignity - Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics! History! English! and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Among her many books are The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce; Crossing: A Memoir; The Secret Sins of Economics; and If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise! all published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext The 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. This book discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the Industrial Revolution. Zusammenfassung The 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. This book discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the Industrial Revolution.

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• Authors: Deirdre Mccloskey, Deirdre N Mccloskey, Deirdre N. McCloskey, McCloskey Deirdre N.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2010
• EAN: 9780226556659
• ISBN: 978-0-226-55665-9
• No. of pages: 592
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europa, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800