Rick Lowe
I've just started this most interesting book.
Here's the opening paragraph of a review by Diane Coyle for the New Statesman:
Bourgeois Dignity is the second in a planned series of six volumes under the collective title The Bourgeois Era. The final volume is to be subtitled The Case for an Ethical Capitalism, and this is the key to Deirdre McCloskey's project. An economic historian and a rigorously schooled economist, she is on a mission to humanise her subject. Much of her work concerns the methodology and rhetoric of economics and its technical sidekick, econometrics. However, the Bourgeois Era series addresses instead the central questions of economics: what makes us better off? What causes growth? [More…]
Read Dr. McCloskey's essay titled Bourgeois Dignity: A Revolutin in Rhetoric, for Cato Unbound here…
Visit her web site here… and please buy the book.
Eisenhower recognized that we must avoid viewing ourselves as an Empire. To do so would be to guarantee our fall: “During the long lane of the history yet to be written, America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect,” he told Americans in January of 1961. “Such a confederation must be one of equals. The weakest must come to the conference table with the same confidence as do we, protected as we are by our moral, economic, and military strength.