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by Deirdre McCloskey
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October 17, 2007

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: How One Might See the Coming of a Bourgeois Ideology
2. Part 1: What Needs to be Explained: The Rhetoric of the Aristocratic and Bourgeois English
   1. Chapter 1: Ideology is Rhetoric
   2. Chapter 2: Elizabethan Drama Disdained the Bourgeoisie
   3. Chapter 3: The Bourgeoisie Measures
   4. Chapter 4: The New Values Triumphed by 1848, or 1790, or 1710
3. Part 2: How It Happened in Venice, Amsterdam, Glasgow, London, and Philadelphia
   1. Chapter 5: The Dutch Were Bourgeois
   2. Chapter 7: How the British Got That Way
   3. Chapter 8: The Literary Impulse: Defoe, Addison, Gay
4. Part 3: Philosophizing the Bourgeois Virtues
   1. Chapter 9: Bourgeois Life Came to be Philosophized around 1700
   2. Chapter 10: French Theorists of the Bourgeoisie Admired Britain
   3. Chapter 11: Adam Smith Shows Bourgeois Theory at Its Best
   4. Chapter 12: Smith Was Last Great Virtue Ethicist
   5. Chapter 13: Franklin Was Bourgeois, But Not Prudence Only
   6. Chapter 14: Japan Theorized Dignity for the Bourgeoisie
5. Part 4: What's Wrong with Prudence Only
   1. Chapter 15: Hobbesian Prudence is Not Sufficient
   2. Chapter 16: The Left Should Acknowledge the Virtues
   3. Chapter 17: But So Should the Right
   4. Chapter 18: Prudence Only Does Not Work
6. Part 5: The Material Consequences and Causes of Bourgeois Virtues
   1. Chapter 19: Modern Growth is a Factor of Fifteen
   2. Chapter 20: It was Not Thrift, or the Protestant Ethic
   3. Chapter 21: Nationalism Was Not It 320

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. 616 + xviii pp. University of Chicago Press, July 2006, as a trade book (reviewed by Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2006; NYTimes Sunday Book Review, July 30, 2006; Time Literary Supplement, November; New York Review of Books, December 21, 2006). Trans. license for Korean (Da Vinci via Besun Korea Agency), June 2006. The volumes 2, 3, and 4 still a-writing, and a précis version on the subject, are also under contract to the Press.

Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Professor of Social Thought at Academia Vitae, Deventer; and Professor Extraordinary, Department of Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Prudentia      Susan B. MacDonald, Editor

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