The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

First in The Bourgeois Era trilogy. "A significant contribution to the study of the moral basis of economic life and thought . . . her vision is original." —Jonathan S. Feinstein, Journal of Economic Literature

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"—al...