RELATED ARTICLESWe "have needed a Deirdre McCloskey for decades. We have needed a serious political philosopher [who] knew the foundations of the grand western project but also knew all the ins and outs of recent cultural thought, the modernisms and post-modernisms that leave most conservatives non-plussed and resentful."It's Not What You Think, 23 Dec. 2010. The Moral Case Against Obamanomics, 22 Dec. 2010. Bourgeois Dignity, 21 Dec. 2010:
"[I]t is long, it is ambitious, it is insufferable, and it is brilliant."Conservatism's Big Problem, 20 Dec. 2010.
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World, 504 pages. University of Chicago Press, ©2010. Volume 1,
Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce was published in July 2006. The volumes 3 and 4, still a-writing, and a précis version on the subject, are also under contract to the Press.
Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden
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