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Bourgeois Dignity, Russia, and modernization

January 2nd, 2011

See “Taking Care of Business,” Craig Pirrong (1 Jan 2011). Excerpt: If there is anything to Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity hypothesis — and I think there is, although I am not totally convinced — Russia is not fertile soil for modernization because of the widespread hostility towards entrepreneurial -– ”bourgeois” — values and enterprise.

More observations on Bourgeois dignity, Russia, and modernization. What did Peter I miss in Holland?

January 4th, 2011

See “Doing the Same Thing Repeatedly, and Expecting Different Results,” 3 Jan. 2011.


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