The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics For An Age Of Commerce - (libr

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Nombre: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: University of Chicago Press

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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, 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 for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities--from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich--overturns 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 capitalism's 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. High Noon, 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 life's work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism--and a surprising page-turner. Biografía del autor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is distinguished professor emerita of economics and of history, and professor emerita of English and of communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
-Editorial: University of Chicago Press
-N° Paginas: 634
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780226556642
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Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0226556646
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: University of Chicago Press
Titulo del libro: The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen
Fecha de publicación: 2007
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 634
ISBN-13: 9780226556642
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780226556642