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 hundred years— which she’s dubbed “The Great Enrichment”—was the result of “massively better ideas in technology and institutions.” Where did they arise from?tag=reasonmagazineA”A new liberty and dignity for commoners,” she argues, “expressed as the ideology of European liberalism.”
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