Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

The Great Enrichment

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Nov 19, 2015
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"Time to rethink our materialist explanations of economies and histories," says McCloskey in an essay for National Review.

"...what mattered were two levels of ideas: the ideas for the betterments themselves (the electric motor, the airplane, the stock market), dreamed up in the heads of the new entrepreneurs drawn from the ranks of ordinary people; and …

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