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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
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‘Bourgeois virtue' is not a contradiction in terms. The age of capitalism has enormously enriched the world. But the enrichment is by no means only material. The virtues enabled capitalist development; but a bourgeois life also encouraged new versions of old virtues; and gave scope for varied lives.
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“She argued that capitalism does not just make us rich, it makes us good (p. 4), viewed capitalism as a MacIntyrean practice and defended what she called the bourgeois virtues generated by capitalism as virtues in themselves”
From Alasdair MacIntyre and Adam Smith on markets, virtues and ends in a capitalist economy (2023) · cites this paper as McCloskey, 2006
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“– McCloskey (2006) Introduction Although it is commonly said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes, it is nonetheless also certain that taxes are far from inevitable.”
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“Encouraging learning, trial and error entrepreneurship, allowing for mistakes, and strengthening the social validation for those activities (McCloskey, 2006, McCloskey 2010) enables poor societies to find ways to create new approaches to help them move out from their plight.”
BackgroundEconomic growth, innovation, institutions, and the Great Enrichment
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“So too have others placed high emphasis on individual duty to the total community, or “virtue,” as a contributor to progress (Himmelfarb, 2004), in a set of “bourgeois virtues” (McCloskey, 2006), Adam Smith’s “moral sentiments” of course preceding by centuries.”
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- Authors
- McCloskey, D. N.
- Corresponding author
- McCloskey, Deirdre N.
- Venue
- University of Chicago Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1-16
- OpenAlex
- W1501319145
- Cited by
- 820
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 28.19
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of Chicago Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- World Economy (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Society, Economy, and Ethics Research
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Historical Economic and Legal Thought
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Capital and Social Class
- Keywords
- bourgeois virtues, capitalism, moral values, bourgeois life
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