Chapter 13 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
New Chapter, unnamed as yet
April 26th, 2010
The virtue of prudence rose in prestige in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the middle of the eighteenth century British men — especially the men — delighted in claiming prudence for their own behavior and a cynical supposition that others were motivated similarly. Thus Adam Smith initiated the economist’s delight in the (more…)
