On Tuesday night at AEI, Deirdre McCloskey and George Will discussed Dr. McCloskey’s concluding volume of her trilogy, “Bourgeois Equality” (University of Chicago Press, 2016). From her presentation ...

Contrary to economists from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty, our riches cannot be explained by the accumulation of capital, as the misleading word capitalism implies. The Great Enrichment ...

In her new book, Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World, the third volume in a trilogy, McCloskey argues that our vast accumulation of wealth over the past two ...

Heading into 2016, one of the books I was most anticipating was “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital Or Institutions, Enriched the World” by economist Deirdre McCloskey. As the cover jacket ...

A casual glance at Bourgeois Equality could convey a mistaken impression that the book is for coffee-table display, for show rather than serious perusal. The volume is large (three pounds, 768 pages) ...

Giorgia Meloni Unleashes Epic Fury on Trump’s G-7 Antics Audio By Carbonatix I sat down recently with the eminent economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey on the occasion of the publication of ...

The bourgeois-democratic republic, with its formal equality for all people and its formal liberties, in actual fact protects private property and thus inevitably becomes a dictatorship of the ...

Two or three centuries ago a new and equal economic liberty, with a new and equal social dignity, emboldened ordinary people to have a go. The dual change in ethics, first in Holland and then in the ...