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

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Book Overview

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. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.

Or so says Deirdre...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226556743
• ISBN13: 9780226556741
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"