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The bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scornedthe 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"all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good fo
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2006
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1 online resource (xviii, 616 pages) : illustrations
9780226556673, 9781282584921, 9786612584923, 0226556670, 1282584928, 6612584920
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pt. 1. The Christian and feminine virtues : love
pt. 2. The Christian and feminine virtues : faith and hope
pt. 3. The bourgeois uses of the virtues
pt. 4. The androgynous virtues : prudence and justice
pt. 5. Systematizing the seven virtues
pt. 6. The bourgeois uses of the virtues
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