Leave Me Alone and Ill Make You Rich..., Art Carden
Leave Me Alone and Ill Make You Rich..., Art Carden
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

Author: Art Carden, Deirdre N. McCloskey

Narrator: Kim Niemi

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admiration for the middle class and its egalitarian liberalism.

For listeners looking for a distillation of McCloskey's magisterial work, Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich is what you've been waiting for. In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Carden bring together the trilogy's key ideas and its most provocative arguments.

Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich draws in entertaining fashion on history, economics, literature, philosophy, and popular culture, from growth theory to The Simpsons. It is the perfect introduction for a broad audience to McCloskey's influential explanation of how we got rich.

About Art Carden

Art Carden is professor of economics at the Brock School of Business at Samford University and a frequent contributor to Forbes.com among other popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

McClosky writes well because she writes like a professor talking to us. Listen up. I totally enjoy this book. So what caused the 3000% improvement in the living standard of the West? And not China, India, Middle East? It’s not Jared Diamond’s Georgraphy. It’s not Niall Ferguson’s Killer apps of the......more

Goodreads review by Pete

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich : How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deidre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden is an erudite quick description of why the authors think that the ‘Great Enrichment’ happened. The Great Enrichment is the massive increase in per capita wealth that started in......more

Goodreads review by Ben

Full disclosure: I started McCloskey's bourgeois trilogy but could not even finish the first 600-page book. I was bewildered when I found out she had written a book called Economical Writing, a book on how to write brief and concise academic papers lol. I found Marxism/Socialism convincing enough th......more

Goodreads review by Ronald

This is a great book, and a fantastic one-book summary of Deirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Trilogy, if you're looking for something much shorter to get an idea of her argument for why the Great Enrichment happened. It's probably not why you think. It is summed up well from her address to a chapter of t......more

Goodreads review by Mónica

I went into the book as someone who favors social democracy because of its social benefits -without being able to truly understand the economics and accounting behind it- and my intention was to dip into liberalism's narrative that it's the only way to make people thrive. I do agree with the basic p......more

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