Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World: Deirdre McCloskey скачать в хорошем качестве

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World: Deirdre McCloskey

Speaker: Deirdre McCloskey | Chair: Parth J Shah Deirdre McCloskey's talk focused on how everyday rhetoric and the ideas we have about people have a direct impact on economic growth. She emphasised that capitalism is not inherently moral or immoral -- that it is choices we make that define its morality. Debunking the commonly held idea that accumulation of capital, saving behaviour and change in institutions were responsible for the economic growth in the Industrial Revolution, she asserted that the most important change was in how we viewed the working class. She concluded by saying that a society where people are encouraged to imagine improvements through innovation and test their ideas in the market will flourish and leave people better off.