{"product_id":"the-bourgeois-virtues-ethics-for-an-age-of-commerce","title":"The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor a century and a half  the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half  the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life  capitalism  Menckens booboisie and David Brookss bobosall have been  and still are  framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty  world wars  and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskeys The Bourgeois Virtues  a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us.  McCloskeys sweeping  charming  and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realitiesfrom Plato to Barbara Ehrenreichoverturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes  yes  and yes  argues McCloskey  who takes on centuries of capitalisms critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of virtue ethics to our lives in modern economies  she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live  without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations.  High Noon  Kant  Bill Murray  the modern novel  van Gogh  and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a lifes work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history  a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalismand a surprising page-turner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983801708597,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226556638","price":30.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226556635.jpg?v=1770810337","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bourgeois-virtues-ethics-for-an-age-of-commerce","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}