Part I. Poverty is on the run -- Part II. Enrichment didn't come for the reasons you imagine -- Part III. It came because ideas, ethics, rhetoric, and ideology changed -- Part IV. The causes of the causes were not racial or ancient.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Poverty Is on the Run -- 1. Liberalism Liberated -- 2. It's the End of the World as They Knew It, and You Should Feel Pretty Good -- 3. Nostalgia and Pessimism Worsen Poverty -- 4. Under Liberalism the Formerly Poor Can Flourish Ethically and Spiritually...

Humanomics in business ethics / Deirdre N. McCloskey -- Introduction / Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis -- Wealth and commerce in archaic Greece: Homer and Hesiod / Mark S. Peacock -- Aristotle and business: friend or foe? / Fred D. Miller, Jr -- Confucian business ethics: possibilities and...

For more than a century, the economics profession has extended its reach to encompass policy formation and institutional design while largely ignoring the ethical challenges that attend the profession's influence over the lives of others. Economists have proved to be disinterested in ethics,...