Dear Prof. McCloskey, I absolutely love your website! Thanks for all the information that you share. I can’t wait for the opportunity to take one of your courses. I have so many questions for you…especially since my dissertation in economics focuses on the auto industry and England. Many greetings to the mini-Bard. Best regards, Cristina
What changed 1600-1848, and dramatically, was the high- and low-cultural attitude towards thrift, capitalism, innovation, and the bourgeoisie. Weber is here correct, though not in thinking that the Puritans had much to do with it. Thriftiness and other specifically economic virtues, such as prudent calculation of costs and benefits or an admiring attitude towards industrial (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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