Leave me alone and I'll make you rich : how the bourgeois deal enriched the world /: how the bourgeois deal enriched the world. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden.
• Authors: McCloskey, Deirdre N; Carden, Art
• Contents: Preface Part I Poverty Is on the Run 1 Liberalism Liberated 2 It's the End of the World as They Knew It, and You Should Feel Pretty Good 3 Nostalgia and Pessimism Worsen Poverty 4 Under Liberalism the Formerly Poor Can Flourish Ethically and Spiritually 5 Consider the Possibility That Your Doubts Might Be Mistaken 6 Pessimism Has Been since 1800 a Rotten Predictor 7 Even about the Environment 8 In Fact, None of the Seven Old Pessimisms Makes a Lot of Sense 9 Nor Do the Three New Ones 10 So to Get Better, the World Had Better Keep Its Ethical Wits about It 11 And True Liberalism Celebrates a Life Beyond Wealth Part II Enrichment Didn't Come for the Reasons You Imagine 12 Liberal Ideas, Not European Horrors or Heroism, Explain the Great Enrichment 13 Liberalism Supported Innovism and the Profit Test 14 The Great Enrichment Did Not Come from Resources or Railways or Property Rights 15 Nor Thrift or 'Capitalism' 16 Schooling and Science Were Not the Fairy Dust 17 It Wasn't Imperialism 18 Nor Slavery 19 Nor Wage Slavery Ended by Unions and Regulation Part III It Came Because Ideas, Ethics, Rhetoric, and Ideology Changed 20 The Talk and the Deals Changed in Northwestern Europe 21 That Is, Ethics and Rhetoric Changed 22 'Honest' Shows the Change 23 And 'Happiness' Itself Changed 24 The Change in Valuation Showed in English Plays, Poems, and Novels Part IV The Causes of the Causes Were Not Racial or Ancient 25 Happy Accidents Led to the Revaluation 26 And Then Old Adam Smith Revealed / The Virtues of the Bourgeois Deal Acknowledgments Notes Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 330.12209; Economic history -- 1750-1918; Economic history -- 1918-; Economic history -- Moral and ethical aspects; Free enterprise -- Social aspects; Liberty -- Economic aspects; Liberalism -- Economic aspects; Libertarianism -- Economic aspects; Capitalism; Progress; Economics -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226739830
• Related ISBNs: 9780226739663
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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