A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 35 “The Dutch Preached Bourgeois Virtue” In the mood for some Dutch history? When are you not, am I right? If you are anything like me, your historical knowledge of Dutch history is thin. So in this chapter, Dr. McCloskey is making note of…
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Bourgeois Equality
Accounting Was Sooo Bourgeois
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 34 “Aristocratic England, For Example, Scorned Measurement” Dr. McCloskey continues exploring the cultural mindset of the Elizabethan era of England in this chapter to demonstrate it did not embrace measurement, which is foundational to the launch of the Great Enrichment in the eighteenth century….
Bourgeois Equality
Continuing Evidence: Rising Bourgeois Values Alters Language
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 26 “And so does the Word ‘Eerlijk’” In many ways this chapter is similar to the previous chapter that traced the change in the definition of honest to show how culture was changing. Honest? I do not think it means what you think it…
Bourgeois Equality
Honest? I do not think it means what you think it means
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 25 “The Word ‘Honest’ Shows the Changing Attitude Toward the Aristocracy and the Bourgeois” Dr. McCloskey is moving further back in time in this fourth part of the book to examine societal changes in 1700s England that will lead to the Great Enrichment. There…
Bourgeois Equality
Aspiring to Bourgeois Virtues
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 23 “Ben Franklin was Bourgeois and He Embodied Betterment” and Chapter 24 “By 1848 A Bourgeois Ideology Had Triumphed” Two more chapters to conclude this section of the book establishing the ideas that took root in the 1800s that allowed the Bourgeois Deal to…