Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

摘要

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World is the second of six intended volumes by Deirdre McCloskey on the Great Fact, namely, die spectacular rise in living standards first experienced by North European countries in die eighteendi century and also later, akhough less dramatically, by most of the remaining countries in die world. McCloskey s basic premise is diat economic factors, such as international trade, savings, education, and institutions, cannot explain the Great Fact.