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1027722
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b782092
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McCloskey, Deirdre N.
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The bourgeois virtues : : ethics for an age of commerce /\ Deirdre McCloskey.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xviii, 616 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0226556670
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: 1282584928
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: 6612584920
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: 9780226556673
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: 9781282584921
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: 9786612584923
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0226556638
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9780226556635
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-588) and index.
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The Christian and feminine virtues : love -- pt. 2. The Christian and feminine virtues : faith and hope -- pt. 3. The bourgeois uses of the virtues -- pt. 4. The androgynous virtues : prudence and justice -- pt. 5. Systematizing the seven virtues -- pt. 6. The bourgeois uses of the virtues.
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For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scornedthe bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"all 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 McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good fo.
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Business ethics-- History.
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Capitalism-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Commerce-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Economic history.
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Social ethics-- History.
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Virtues-- History.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Business Ethics.
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Business ethics.
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Capitalism-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Commerce-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Economic history.
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Social ethics.
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Virtues.
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Burgerij.
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Ethische aspecten.
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Kapitalisme.
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| Dewey Classification
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174
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HB501.M5534 2006eb
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| Parallel Title
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Ethics for an age of commerce
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