Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Book Overview

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022633399X
• ISBN13: 9780226333991
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"