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The bourgeois virtues
ethics for an age of commerce
By McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- ISBN
- 978-0-22655-663-5
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
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Reviewed on April 1, 2006
McCloskey (economics, history, English, & communication, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago;Crossing: A Memoir ) intends her new book as the first in a quartet defending the bourgeois class. She incorporates nearly the entire range of the humanities, from philosophy and religion to linguistics, literature, and history, to drive home her argument that the bourgeois class, with its adherence to capitalism, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
