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4974529The Bourgeois Virtueshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-bourgeois-virtues-9780226556673/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3528570/cf4af475-f74f-48c7-8237-098fb95e4a99.jpg?v=638527326069170000236306MXNThe University of Chicago PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>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,</strong> <em><strong>Journal of Economic Literature</strong></em></p><p>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, Menckens booboisie and David Brookss bobosall 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 McCloskeys <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em>, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.</p><p>McCloskeys sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realitiesfrom Plato to Barbara Ehrenreichoverturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalisms critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of virtue ethics to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live.</p><p><em>High Noon</em>, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a lifes work. <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em> is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalismand a surprising page-turner.</p>...4047272The Bourgeois Virtues236306https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-bourgeois-virtues-9780226556673/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3528570/cf4af475-f74f-48c7-8237-098fb95e4a99.jpg?v=638527326069170000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20109780226556673_W3siaWQiOiI5MjhhOGRlOC01NmI3LTRjNjQtOTg4MC1lZjY3MTUyZWViZGUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNiwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMDUtMzFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780226556673_<p>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, Menckens booboisie and David Brookss bobosall 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 McCloskeys <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em>, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.</p><p>McCloskeys sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realitiesfrom Plato to Barbara Ehrenreichoverturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalisms critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of virtue ethics to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.</p><p><em>High Noon</em>, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a lifes work. <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em> is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalismand a surprising page-turner.</p>...(*_*)9780226556673_<p><strong>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,</strong> <em><strong>Journal of Economic Literature</strong></em></p><p>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, Menckens booboisie and David Brookss bobosall 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 McCloskeys <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em>, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.</p><p>McCloskeys sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realitiesfrom Plato to Barbara Ehrenreichoverturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalisms critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of virtue ethics to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live.</p><p><em>High Noon</em>, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a lifes work. <em>The Bourgeois Virtues</em> is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalismand a surprising page-turner.</p>...9780226556673_The University of Chicago Presslibro_electonico_9780226556673_9780226556673Deirdre NansenInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/openroadmedia-epub-be879f34-d063-48df-ab04-56f89805d667.epub2010-03-15T00:00:00+00:00The University of Chicago Press