Free Book (ADE/PDF) - The Bourgeois Virtues

koland · 11-01-2010, 03:46 AM

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce ($13.50 Kindle), by Deirdre N. McCloskey, is free from the University of Chicago this month.

Book Description
For 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, 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 for us.

McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns 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 capitalism’s 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 life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.

Click HERE for the free book.

petercreasey · 11-01-2010, 02:08 PM

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Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Bourgeois Virtues
Ethics for an Age of Commerce
634 pages, 3 line drawings, 8 tables 6 x 9 © 2006
E-book Free! See form below (about e-books)
ISBN: 9780226556673
Cloth $32.50
ISBN: 9780226556635 Published July 2006
Paper $22.50
ISBN: 9780226556642 Published October 2007

The first volume of McCloskey’s revisionist history of economics in the West.

“Deirdre McCloskey’s unfashionable, contrarian, and compelling manifesto in favor of what she calls the bourgeois virtues starts with an uncompromising ‘apology’ for how private property, free labor, free trade, and prudent calculation are the font of most ethical good in modern society, not a moral threat to it.… She writes with wonderful ease. Her style is conversational and lively, sometimes even cheeky.”—Matt Ridley, Wall Street Journal

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GA Russell · 11-01-2010, 04:36 PM

Do Chicago's free offerings come with DRM?

petercreasey · 11-01-2010, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by GA Russell

Do Chicago's free offerings come with DRM?

G, I used Adobe Digital Editions to do the download, which I believe is the required sequence.

GA Russell · 11-01-2010, 05:21 PM

Thanks, Peter. I guess I'm not surprised.

twobits · 11-01-2010, 07:07 PM

Do you wind up with an epub then?

koland · 11-01-2010, 08:03 PM

PDF - as noted in the first thread for this book earlier today.

11-01-2010, 03:46 AM	#1
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Free Book (ADE/PDF) - The Bourgeois Virtues The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce ($13.50 Kindle), by Deirdre N. McCloskey, is free from the University of Chicago this month. Book Description For 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, 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 for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns 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 capitalism’s 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 life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner. Click HERE for the free book.

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GA Russell Argos win Grey Cup! Posts: 7,670 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	Do Chicago's free offerings come with DRM?

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GA Russell Argos win Grey Cup! Posts: 7,670 Karma: 31487351 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Raleigh, NC Device: Paperwhite, Kindles 10 & 4 and jetBook Lite	Thanks, Peter. I guess I'm not surprised.

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koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	PDF - as noted in the first thread for this book earlier today.

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