{"product_id":"leave-me-alone-and-ill-make-you-rich-how-the-bourgeois-deal-enriched-the-world-paperback","title":"Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDeirdre Nansen McCloskey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArt Carden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Equality, \u003c\/i\u003esolve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For readers looking for a distillation of McCloskey's magisterial work, \u003ci\u003eLeave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich \u003c\/i\u003eis what you've been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy's key ideas and its most provocative arguments. The rise of the west, and now the rest, is the story of the rise of ordinary people to a dignity and liberty inspiring them to have a go. The outcome was an explosion of innovation after 1800, and a rise of real income by an astounding 3,000 percent. The Great Enrichment, well beyond the conventional Industrial Revolution, did not, McCloskey and Carden show, come from the usual suspects, capital accumulation or class struggle. It came from the idea of economic liberty in Holland and the Anglosphere, then Sweden and Japan, then Italy and Israel and China and India, an idea that bids fair in the next few generations to raise up the wretched of the earth. The original shift to liberalism arose from 1517 to 1789 from theological and political revolutions in northwest Europe, upending ancient hierarchies. McCloskey and Carden contend further that liberalism and \"innovism\" made us better humans as well as richer ones. Not matter but ideas. Not corruption but improvement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich \u003c\/i\u003edraws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to the Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey's influential explanation of how we got rich. At a time when confidence in the economic system is under challenge, the book mounts an optimistic and persuasive defense of liberal innovism, and of the modern world it has wrought. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeirdre Nansen McCloskey \u003c\/b\u003eis distinguished professor emerita of economics and of history, and professor emerita of English and of communication, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her two dozen books include \u003ci\u003eThe Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World; Economical Writing: Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Sins of Economics;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrossing: A Transgender Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eArt Carden \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of economics at the Brock School of Business at Samford University and a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eForbes.com\u003c\/i\u003e among other popular magazines and scholarly journals. \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765899329824,"sku":"9780226823980","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/38f7b334169f80bfb96ad9fb2bd709a2.webp?v=1780282471","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/leave-me-alone-and-ill-make-you-rich-how-the-bourgeois-deal-enriched-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}