The Bourgeois Virtues http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/bourgeoisvirtues/ Deirdre McCloskey discourses on economics and the virtuous life en Copyright 2007 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:02:27 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Deirdre has a new Web site and blog Deirdre has a fabulous new Web site and blog at deirdremccloskey.org/. Please visit there to converse with Deirdre and find out more about her life and work.

]]> http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/bourgeoisvirtues/2007/04/deirdre_has_a_new_web_site_and.html http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/bourgeoisvirtues/2007/04/deirdre_has_a_new_web_site_and.html About the book Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:02:27 -0600 Review in the Wall Street Journal jacket imageThe 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."

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