Deirdre McCloskey - Bourgeois Towns

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Montesquieu, Voltaire. English/Dutch model spreads. French imitate a bourgeois atmosphere established early in 18th century, which nourished Smith as well. Anti-Rousseau, precursor of the Romantic anti-Kism (Berlin, Edmund Wilson)

Bourgeois Towns: How Capitalism Became Ethical, 1600-1800, a book in progress by Deirdre McCloskey is the second of a planned four (the first, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce was published in 2006 by the University of Chicago Press, and widely reviewed). She asks how Northwestern Europe, and England in particular, moved from admiration for the aristocratic values to admiration for the bourgeois values. N.B.: Notes and citations for the online draft version of Bourgeois Towns are available on request.

Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden

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