Tuesday, September 22: Washington:”Bourgeois Dignity,” at the Department of Economics, American University, 12:00-1:30, at Roper Hall 105,4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016 (202-885-1000; Tenleytown-AU Metrorail Station).
An extreme materialist hypothesis explaining the Industrial Revolution would be simply genetic. Gregory Clark asserts such a theory of sociobiological inheritance in his Farewell to Alms (2007). Rich people proliferated in England, Clark argues, and by a social Darwinian struggle the poor and incompetent died out, leaving a master race of Englishmen with the bourgeois values to conquer the world. Clark will have no truck with ideas as causes, adopting a materialist (and as he believes is implied by materialism a quantitative) theory of truth. His method, that is, follows Marx in historical materialism, … [continues; click title bar above]
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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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