Critical Compendium » The Bourgeois Virtues, Ethics for an Age of Commerce, by Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues, Ethics for an Age of Commerce, by Deirdre N. McCloskey

‘I hate the middle class. I am a snob and an ingrate, an erudite ignoramus unappreciative of the market that puts food on my table and books on my shelves. I and my left-wing ilk are responsible for at least one global war, the persistence of poverty and despair among the wretched of the earth, and a culture that maligns the genuine virtue of hard-working entrepreneurs. I should be thoroughly ashamed of myself, and I should run to the nearest small business and beg for forgiveness and instruction. I should get a real job. In short, Deirdre McCloskey has exposed me for the fraud that I am - or so she tells me in ‘The Bourgeois Virtues.’ Read the review at Christianity Today.

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