Leave me alone and I'll make you rich : how the bourgeois deal enriched the world

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Full Title:: Leave me alone and I'll make you rich : how the bourgeois deal enriched the world / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden

Subjects:: 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

Table of Contents:: Part I. Poverty is on the run -- Part II. Enrichment didn't come for the reasons you imagine -- Part III. It came because ideas, ethics, rhetoric, and ideology changed -- Part IV. The causes of the causes were not racial or ancient.
Summary:: "Deirdre McCloskey is one of our best-known economic historians and an advocate for free market capitalism and the power of ideas in shaping our economy. Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich collects the provocative arguments put forward by McCloskey in a trilogy published by the Press that mounts a vigorous defense of capitalism as told through the story of the rise of the bourgeois. Co-authored with Art Carden, Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich is a libertarian take on economic development and the role of government and, indeed, tells a different story of market expansion and democratization than that of Thomas Piketty or Joseph Stiglitz. Carden and McCloskey succinctly demonstrate the power of new technologies and new ideas about democracy, liberty, and dignity for all people in fueling economic growth and prosperity in modernizing Europe"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xvii, 227 pages ; 24 cm