The Bourgeois virtues: Ethics for an age of commerce

By J. Graafland. 2009

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Citations in the corpus

• Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “Encouraging learning, trial and error entrepreneurship, allowing for mistakes, and strengthening the social validation for those activities (McCloskey, 2006, McCloskey 2010) enables poor societies to find ways to create new approaches to help them move out from their plight.”
• Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: A case study of Yiwu, China (2014, background): “And both are necessary, along with the encouragement of prospective entrepreneurs, particularly in emerging economies (Bruton, Ahlstrom, & Obloj, 2008; McCloskey, 2007).”
• Which model of capitalism best delivers both wealth and equality? (2014, background): “9Excellent work on the ideological basis for institutions and institutional change may be found in writings by McCloskey (2006), Heilbroner (1986), and most recently, McGregor (2012).”
• Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality (2011, unknown): “– McCloskey (2006)”
• Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World (2007, background): “More recently, the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey (2006) has argued that we should credit modern capitalism for improving ethics, creating new virtues, peace, and refinement, rather than seeing it as their enemy.”
• On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions (2017, unknown): “The institutional changes in Medieval England from the Magna Charta onwards, which arguably stand at the origin of British prosperity and the Industrial Revolution (Acemoglu and Robinson, 2010) could also be attributed to a general bourgeois culture as forcefully argued by McCloskey (2006, 2010).”