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Chapter 8 of the Bourgeois Revaluation:
“Yet Still Old England Disdained the Market and the Bourgeoisie”

March 11th, 2010

Yet in less progressive places the old calumnies against the bourgeoisie continued. In England especially. To the intense irritation of French and German and Japanese people, England, with Scotland in attendance, has been since about 1700 the very fount of bourgeois values. British merchants, British investors, British inventors, British imperialists, British bankers, British economists have (more…)

Bourgeois Dignity’s “Creative Language, Creative Destruction, Creative Politics” sparks a new conversation

March 11th, 2010

Abstract from Gustavo Morles’s (28 Feb. 2010 draft version of) “The Rhetoric of Economics: Why Words are Important”: By looking at historical evidence McCloskey concludes that the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution was made possible by the change in attitudes, reflected ultimately in the change in rhetoric, towards bourgeois values. This paper explores the (more…)


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