Tag: Bourgeois

Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GKSLCB | M4B@62 kbps | 29h 38m | 807.74 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

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.

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Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GJK5TF | MP3@64 kbps | 20h 42m | 571.59 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.

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The Bourgeois Between History and Literature


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English | 2013 | pages: 228 | ISBN: 178168085X, 1781683042 | EPUB | 1,3 mb
"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, andhave been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber,in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?

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Bourgeois Equality How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World [Audiobook]


Free Download Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (Audiobook)
English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GKSLCB | M4B@62 kbps | 29h 38m | 807.74 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

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.

(more…)

Bourgeois Dignity Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World [Audiobook]


Free Download Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World (Audiobook)
English | June 29, 2017 | ASIN: B073GJK5TF | MP3@64 kbps | 20h 42m | 571.59 MB
Author: Deirdre N. McCloskey
Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.

(more…)