McCloskey, Deirdre N. - In: Man and the Economy 2 (2015) 1, pp. 7-24
Abstract The question is why the Great Enrichment of 4,000 or 10,000 percent increase in material scope per person, 1800 to the present, awaited 1800. The answer lies with ideas, ideologies, sociology, habits of lip, conversation, ethics – in short, how people viewed each other. They began...