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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged — 29 hours, 38 minutes
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By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
Unabridged — 29 hours, 38 minutes
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There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.

Why? Most economists-from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty-say the Great Enrichment since 1800 came from accumulated cap...