From Pethokoukis’s “Sorry, America, You’re Rich Enough. Stop Working” (Richocet, 5 July 2012): [E]lites like Skidelsky have often frowned on work despite their professed affection for the working man. As economist Deirdre McCloskey writes in Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World, the rising reputation of commerce—of making money through private trade rather (more…)
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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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