Review in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal reviewed The Bourgeois Virtues on July 22. Reviewer Matt Ridley said the book is "an exhaustive philosophical treatise on virtue ethics, and a very fine one, too. Ms. McCloskey is spectacularly well read. She can pull an apposite quotation not only from her heroes, such as Adam Smith and Thomas Aquinas, but also from Thucydides and Machiavelli, or from the anthropologist Ruth Bendict and the contemporary philosopher Alistair MacIntyre, or (for that matter) from the movies 'Groundhog Day' and 'Shane.' What is more, she writes with wonderful ease. . . . The book radiates intelligence and insight and will illuminate my thinking for years to come."
Read an excerpt from the book.
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I read the excerpt. It sounds great.
"True, any well-wisher of humankind will count the relief of poverty over large parts of the world as desirable"
The rise in wealth may have reduced poverty to some extent but not to the extent that it could have. With the rise of the industrial revolution and increased material wealth the world has seen an incredibly drastic increase in the wealth of a few individuals and a lesser increase in the wealth of the rest of humanity. The wealth that has been created is enriching a few but not humanity as a whole.
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