The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

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To my mother,Helen Stuel<strong>an</strong>d McCloskey
Page 2: the bourgeois virtues
Page 5: Deirdre N. McCloskey is distinguish
Page 9 and 10: Part 1THE CHRISTIAN AND FEMININE VI
Page 11 and 12: 24 Evil as Imbalance, Inner and Out
Page 13 and 14: 48 The Anxieties of Bourgeois Virtu
Page 15 and 16: xivprefaceliterary history, art his
Page 17 and 18: xviacknowledgmentsof Brussels, the
Page 19 and 20: xviiiacknowledgmentsintellectual an
Page 21 and 22: 2 apologyVolkswagen, all of them, u
Page 23 and 24: 4 apologyEurope escaped for a time
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Page 29 and 30: 10 apologyabout bourgeois life, evi
Page 31 and 32: 12 apologyThe theoretical impulse t
Page 33 and 34: 14 apologyIII.Probatio A: Modern Ca
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Page 37 and 38: 18 apologyUNICEF announced that hal
Page 39 and 40: 20 apologyGather together the figur
Page 41 and 42: 22 apologyV. Probatio C: And Improv
Page 43 and 44: 24 apologyHumans make their consump
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Page 53 and 54: 34 apologyThe claim on the left is
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38 apologyallow themselves to be tr
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a brief for the bourgeois virtues 4
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56 appealBut I do have an apology t
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58 appealto William Gaddis’s JR a
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60 appealexchange I ask you—you o
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1the very word “virtue”Bourgeoi
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the very word “virtue” 65The sh
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the very word “virtue” 67system
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the very word “bourgeois” 69mal
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the very word “bourgeois” 71mer
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the very word “bourgeois” 73the
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the very word “bourgeois” 75Tha
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the very word “bourgeois” 77And
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3on not being spooked by the word
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on not being spooked by the word
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4the first virtue: love profaneand
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the first virtue: love profane and
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Love rules.the first virtue: love p
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love and the transcendent 101attach
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love and the transcendent 103of the
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love and the transcendent 105ing, s
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love and the transcendent 107It is
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sweet love vs. interest 109The phil
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sweet love vs. interest 111outsider
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sweet love vs. interest 113word “
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sweet love vs. interest 115economis
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7bourgeois economists against loveA
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ourgeois economists against love 11
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love and the bourgeoisie 127As some
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love and the bourgeoisie 129A class
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love and the bourgeoisie 131You can
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love and the bourgeoisie 133worth t
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love and the bourgeoisie 135prudent
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love and the bourgeoisie 137becomes
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9solidarity regainedNow of course i
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solidarity regained 141politics, of
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solidarity regained 143unfulfilled,
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solidarity regained 145Somehow we h
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solidarity regained 147Apparently i
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part twoThe Christian andFeminine V
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152 chapter 10In spiritual terms fa
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154 chapter 10modern terms it is ca
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156 chapter 10paths, exchange postc
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158 chapter 10twentieth century fit
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11hope and its banishmentMan doth s
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162 chapter 11“retire” to Innis
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164 chapter 11qualities for a fit p
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166 chapter 11the suburbs” throug
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168 chapter 12That is, we humans li
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170 chapter 12A woman can have a st
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172 chapter 12But not faith or hope
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174 chapter 12early twentieth centu
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13van gogh and the transcendentprof
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178 chapter 13thirty-nine, apparent
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180 chapter 13his long, sober, bori
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182 chapter 13which is my life—th
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14humility and truthI cannot concei
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186 chapter 14The goods difficult o
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188 chapter 14But as Thomas Merton
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190 chapter 14mere rank. He was a d
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192 chapter 14A proud, modern, secu
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194 chapter 14notion of God. He def
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196 chapter 15Nelson, who now teach
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198 chapter 15charming, intelligent
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16the good of courageI am preaching
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the good of courage 203The task of
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in the 1830s and early 1840s. The c
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the good of courage 207cash payment
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the good of courage 209offered no r
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the good of courage 211for example,
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anachronistic courage in the bourge
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18taciturn courage againstthe “fe
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taciturn courage against the “fem
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19bourgeois vs. queerIn almost no A
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ourgeois vs. queer 233it, except fo
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ourgeois vs. queer 235artist, of ef
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ourgeois vs. queer 237appears, it i
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ourgeois vs. queer 239youngest son
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20balancing courageNonaristocratic
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alancing courage 243a means of want
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alancing courage 245view, for examp
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alancing courage 247The ancients an
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alancing courage 249company, what h
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part fourThe Androgynous Virtues:Pr
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254 chapter 21Good] were so potent
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256 chapter 21if you didn’t mean
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258 chapter 21God’s creature, too
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260 chapter 21Catalan country pries
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262 chapter 21nonbourgeois virtues,
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264 chapter 22strongly, as people l
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266 chapter 22none comes into the w
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268 chapter 22him, “with Kant vig
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23the storied character of virtue
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272 chapter 23Socrates—who I have
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274 chapter 23ice with a twist of l
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276 chapter 23ourselves,” or at a
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278 chapter 23aware of his alienati
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280 chapter 24And the method assume
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282 chapter 24incapacity to underst
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284 chapter 24ordinary citizens of
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286 chapter 24complete or infallibl
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288 chapter 24not imagined until Ro
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25the pagan-ethical bourgeoisThe Ro
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292 chapter 25and “morals” in i
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294 chapter 25are after all merely
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296 chapter 25“honesty” has com
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298 chapter 25Sartre is considering
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300 chapter 25character, and a demo
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26the system of the virtuesThe prin
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the system of the virtues 305Among
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should so act, but can’t bring hi
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the system of the virtues 309He cou
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the system of the virtues 311MacInt
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the system of the virtues 313a time
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a philosophical psychology? 315Cont
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a philosophical psychology? 317exer
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a philosophical psychology? 319stre
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ethical striving 321the strength of
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ethical striving 323since the 1960s
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ethical striving 325Small-ttruthsac
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ethical striving 327such as Aquinas
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William J. Bennett recognized corre
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ethical striving 331point of automa
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ethical realism 333The kind of real
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ethical realism 335descriptive is-s
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30against reductionThe life of reas
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against reduction 339So the modern
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against reduction 341But I said Noz
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against reduction 343The fact is ir
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against reduction 345a reasonable i
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character(s) 347sometimes be calm w
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character(s) 349The part that is pr
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character(s) 351Our ethical talk ov
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antimonism again 353The problem lie
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antimonism again 355want to general
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antimonism again 357John Gray descr
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antimonism again 359free contractin
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33why not one virtue?The seven virt
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why not one virtue? 363986 Chastity
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why not one virtue? 365has a kind o
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why not one virtue? 367Murdoch, tho
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34dropping the virtues, 1532-1958Th
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dropping the virtues, 1532-1958 371
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35other listsYet “few have resist
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other lists 381sense of purposevisi
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other lists 383Self-disciplineCompa
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other lists 385epistemology, and ci
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eastern and other ways 387The Chine
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eastern and other ways 389And Confu
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eastern and other ways 391The Japan
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eastern and other ways 393when an e
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needing virtues 395any such thing a
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needing virtues 397ordinary people
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needing virtues 399some counsel mor
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needing virtues 401to think of hims
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needing virtues 403dence . . . and
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part sixThe Bourgeois Usesof the Vi
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408 chapter 38speech, semiotics, so
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410 chapter 38Amartya Sen is not ab
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412 chapter 38final interest. And t
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414 chapter 381980 Posner was check
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39sacred reasonsThe sacred and the
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418 chapter 39about the same across
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420 chapter 39“friend,” then a
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422 chapter 39That can’t explain
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40not by p aloneHumans live through
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426 chapter 40people of whatever in
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428 chapter 40for eight decades, ea
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430 chapter 40income—maybe 10 per
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432 chapter 40relationships in the
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434 chapter 41about expected return
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436 chapter 41how important the ego
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438 chapter 41As H. Allen Orr obser
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440 chapter 41Crusade was inspired
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42god’s dealSeest thou a man dili
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444 chapter 42longest single passag
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446 chapter 42surprising that the r
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448 chapter 42nongain, but with an
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450 chapter 42I am not making the J
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452 chapter 43of hidden persuasion
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454 chapter 43So having a lot is no
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456 chapter 43Protestant, convictio
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458 chapter 43A noneconomist is inc
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460 chapter 43immediately and corre
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462 chapter 44new urban universitie
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464 chapter 44may properly sell Sha
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466 chapter 44But, yes: social life
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468 chapter 44of Friends property w
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470 chapter 45mistake. “One who m
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472 chapter 45The piling up of good
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474 chapter 45Veblen, Karl Polanyi,
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476 chapter 45“as stupid and as i
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46the richMr. Strahan put Johnson i
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480 chapter 46Why finish high schoo
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482 chapter 46and our wealth is bui
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484 chapter 46Now if the market dea
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486 chapter 46those who would have
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47good baronsOnly a temperate prude
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490 chapter 47that it was mainly by
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492 chapter 47Endowment for Interna
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494 chapter 47with Pittsburgh daily
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496 chapter 47India is the most rel
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498 chapter 48unless virtues come d
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500 chapter 48Aristotelian, or a so
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502 chapter 48The project here is t
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504 chapter 48Maseratis had fallen
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506 chapter 48Buddenbrooks (1901),
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508 chapter 48A third is the Justic
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510 postscript4 The Bourgeois City
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512 postscript9 & 10 The Bourgeois
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514 postscript14 Restarting Adam Sm
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516 notes to pages 10-1720. So it i
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518 notes to pages 27-34it out, I s
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520 notes to pages 45-66111. Rousse
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522 notes to pages 81-945. Schama,
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524 notes to pages 104-11214. Wood,
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526 notes to pages 124-13526. Nozic
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528 notes to pages 145-15826. See,
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530 notes to pages 169-1807. Comte-
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532 notes to pages 190-20323. White
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534 notes to pages 216-23010. McNei
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536 notes to pages 245-25710. As By
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538 notes to pages 266-28113. Quote
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540 notes to pages 294-31311. Quote
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542 notes to pages 322-3336. Frankf
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544 notes to pages 347-3643. Gray,I
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546 notes to pages 378-39126. Orwel
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548 notes to pages 401-41225. Willi
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550 notes to pages 424-438chapter 4
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552 notes to pages 453-4668. Hinze,
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554 notes to pages 483-4998. McClos
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works citedAbbing, Hans. 2002. Why
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works cited 559Reprinted as pp. 205
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index1848: and ethics of bourgeoisi
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index 591Baar, Dirk-Jan van: on van
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index 593doomed, 13, 15, 40; ethica
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index 595creative class: as clerisy
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index 597at Rome, 155; as identity,
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index 599Goossens, Eymert-Jan: on t
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index 601Horkheimer, Max: on solida
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index 603Keynes, John Maynard: anim
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index 605Mailer, Norman: homosexual
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index 607Murray, Gilbert: following
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index 609power elite: Golden Rule,
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index 611both needed, 416; defined
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index 613203; society of love as by
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index 615Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher: B
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