Materially Blessed are the Middle Classes, for They are Virtuous: A Review Essay on Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Trilogy
This essay reviews Deirdre McCloskey's trilogy in political economy: Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality. In this trilogy McCloskey seeks to reestablish the ethical, historical, and political legitimacy of modern capitalism. Success of the project is offset by misappreh...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 271-280 |
| Review of: | The bourgeois virtues (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2007) (Arbo, Matthew B.)
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| RelBib Classification: | NCA Ethics NCE Business ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
BOURGEOIS sociology
B Dignity B Middle class B Book review B Bourgeois B Progress B Economy B Virtue B Religious Aspects B Equality B History B Liberalism |
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| Summary: | This essay reviews Deirdre McCloskey's trilogy in political economy: Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality. In this trilogy McCloskey seeks to reestablish the ethical, historical, and political legitimacy of modern capitalism. Success of the project is offset by misapprehension of normativity and thus of how human economy is ethical. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946818770401 |