Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

A "thought-provoking" one-volume distillation of the author's powerful trilogy in praise of the middle class's role in creating a better, and richer, world (Library Journal).

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and c...