Chapter 1 of The Bourgeois Revaluation:
Medieval and Early Modern Economies had Bourgeois Capitalists
January 10th, 2010
The usual explanations for the modern world, Marxist or anti-Marxist, do not work very. What does work is a story of innovation by the bourgeoisie, a bourgeoisie revalued 1600 to the present, first in Holland and then in Britain and then the world. That’s what was argued in Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (2010).
Where then to look for the springs of innovation? The place to look, I say, is in the innovative activities of the urban middle class, …. [continues; click title bar above]
