The Bourgeois virtues : ethics for an age of commerce / Deirdre McCloskey.

By:

McCloskey, Deirdre N

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006Description: xviii, 616p. : ill., ; 23cmISBN:

9780226556642

Other title:

Ethics for an age of commerce

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DDC classification:

174 MAC 22

LOC classification:

HB501 .M5534 2006

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Summary: For a century and a half artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. Applying a tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, this book affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Calcutta	174 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMC-0144571

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [557]-588) and index.

For a century and a half artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. Applying a tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, this book affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.

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