The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

index 605Mailer, Norman: homosexuality in Nakedand the Dead, 239; novel on Jesus’doubts, 97Maltese Falcon: and gender anxiety, 237Malthus, R. Thomas: mistaken on population,16, 32–35Mandeville, Bernard: killing ethics, 369; paradoxof thrift, 459–460; prudence-only,12; unintended consequences, 306, 459Mann, Thomas: bourgeoisie, 505–507; genderand literary life, 229Mansfield, Harvey: bourgeois virtue, 148;notes Rousseau’s citizen vs. bourgeois,521n3 (chap. 3); virtù and manliness, 202Manzoni, Alessandro: procapitalist, 9Marcuse, Herbert: lost solidarity, 142Margo, Robert: share of labor in nationalincome, 518n73Margolis, Howard: used, 344, on preferencesfor preferencesmarket: encourages friendship, 138; J. B. Whitecritic of, 6, 480; makes virtues, 4;supportedby virtues, 4; virtues of, 481–487.See also bourgeoisie; capitalismmarriage, romantic: traditional myth of, 93Marshall, Alfred: Anglican priest in training,165; religion and economics, 4Marshall Plan: and European success, 52, 480Martí, José: protected by government competition,42Marx, Karl: capitalism as endless accumulation,412; evil birth of capitalism, 13; falseconsciousness in self-definition of bourgeoisie,70; feudal socialism, 378; labortheory, 479; treason of the clerisy, 9, 10;work experience of, 472Masson, Jeffrey: psychoanalysis and ethics,395–396materialism: among bourgeoisie, 81–85. Seealso consumptionMaurin, Father Peter: Catholic Worker theory,442, 485; truly humble, 184Maus, Katharine Eisaman: Henry V’s politics,400Max U: characterized, 114; charted, 300, 304,498; Edgeworth invents, 135; failures asscience, 115, 135, 338–344; invented byclerisy, 135; minor characters in Austenand, 375; not enacted by economists, 344;Nozick criticizes, 124; only character inSamuelsonian economics, 108, 109, 110,135, 190, 429; Sen criticizes, 135–136;Smith and, 191; Stocker criticizes, 285;tragedy and, 366; truth of, 489;Veblencriticizes, 489Mazzini, Giuseppe: government competition,42; nationalism and religion, 173McAdams, Dan: redemptive self, 433McClay, Wilfred: Gemeinschaft andGesellschaft, both operate, 131; quotingKant on dignity, 410McClelland, David C.: need for achievement,124; use of children’s books, 427McCloskey, Helen: acknowledged re sacredand profane, 424; on courage, 199; onfaith and hope, 149; on love, 89; the market,405; on prudence,251; synthesis ofvirtues, 301; translating virtues, 273McCloskey, John: antibourgeois myth,530n11 (chap. 13); sacredness in Americaneating habits, 427–428McCloskey, Robert G.: liberalism as radicaldemocratic thought, 555n9McCracken, Grant: “plenitude” of modernlife, 25McDowell, John: on preferring the good,538n12; universal principles of decision,356; virtue ethicist, 246McElroy, Wendy: ethical good of capitalism,4McInerny, Ralph: on Aristotle and ethics inscience, 324; remorse and utilitarianism,366McNeill, William: competing European governmentsencouraged freedom, 37, 40;ethics in his science, 324; “macroparasites”in government, 36; McNeill “gunpowderempires” extend reach ofgovernment, 35; navies bourgeois, 216;Venice loses as government competitiondeclines, 519n83McPherson, James: Jesse James and socialistgestures, 220McPherson, Michael, value-free science,335meaning of life: altruism and, 101; CharlieBrown on, 546n5; Kant on, 147Medawar, Peter: cultural inheritance, 438median voter theorem: poor and governmentin rich countries and, 45–47; Sennotes relevance to famine, 46Medici: early, embarrassed by riches, 81