Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
Explores how changing ideas about dignity and liberty for ordinary people sparked modern prosperity across the world.
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Bourgeois Equality examines why some societies became dramatically richer after 1800.
The author contends that a change in attitudes toward commerce and innovation was decisive.
Capital accumulation and institutions are presented as secondary factors.
The book surveys global evidence on living standards and social values.
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