The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

634 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve et...

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