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“…as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last seven or eight years I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of unrealized gains from trade to be enjoyed through multi-disciplinary conversation.”

January 29th, 2010

Excerpted from Art Carden in “A New Addition to the Bookshelf” in Division of Labor, 25 January 2010 (original link). My copy of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture just arrived … . I’m really looking forward to it; as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last (more…)

Chapter 4 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
There Were Precursors of a Self-Respecting Bourgeoisie

January 29th, 2010

Dear Reader: This is a rough draft (Jan. 2010) of The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848. Three asterisks *** or the bold or NNN (for a name) or DDDD (for a date) and the many pages with “items [perhaps] to be inserted” indicate only some of the numerous things to be done. I (more…)


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