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 readers 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. The
rise of the west, and now the rest, is the story of the rise of
ordinary people to a dignity and liberty inspiring them to have a
go. The outcome was an explosion of innovation after 1800, and a
rise of real income by an astounding 3,000 percent. The Great
Enrichment, well beyond the conventional Industrial Revolution, did
not, McCloskey and Carden show, come from the usual suspects,
capital accumulation or class struggle. It came from the idea of
economic liberty in Holland and the Anglosphere, then Sweden and
Japan, then Italy and Israel and China and India, an idea that bids
fair in the next few generations to raise up the wretched of the
earth. The original shift to liberalism arose from 1517 to 1789
from theological and political revolutions in northwest Europe,
upending ancient hierarchies. McCloskey and Carden contend further
that liberalism and "innovism" made us better humans as well as
richer ones. Not matter but ideas. Not corruption but improvement.
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. At a time when confidence in the economic system is
under challenge, the book mounts an optimistic and persuasive
defense of liberal innovism, and of the modern world it has
wrought.
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