Potentially dismissive definition, however, by citing Erasmus'sĬomment on his own paradoxical encomium, The Praise of Folly, that Involves the praise of unworthy, unexpected, or trifling objects, suchĪs the praise of lying and envy, or of the gout or of pots and Genre as "a species of rhetorical jest or display piece which Thought in the period, as well as a better sense of how thoroughlyĮconomic thinking had penetrated the culture.īarnfield's "Encomium," when it is thought about atĪll, is thought about in connection with the genre of the paradoxicalĮncomium as outlined by Henry Knight Miller in 1956. Or, Good Luck at Last" (1695/6), offer us the opportunity toĬonsider representations of high cultural and popular cultural debatesĪbout monetary reform at either end of the seventeenth century and toĮvaluate them for their contribution to a fuller picture of economic
"The Encomium of Lady Pecunia: Or, the Praise of Money" (1598)Īnd the anonymous broadside ballad "Rare News for the Female Sex: Two economically focused poems, Richard Barnfield's These bourgeois dignifying "habits of the lip" (McCloskeyĢ010, p. The rowdy commercial culture of seventeenth-century London providesįertile ground for an exploration of the cultural evidence of some of And that continuation, with its manyĪlterations, is expressed through language, rhetoric, and culture. In other words, sophisticated economic thinking does not The Rhineland, northern France, and then the world" (McCloskeyĢ010, p. Scotland, and British North America, and after 1800 in southern Belgium, So in other towns of the south and the Hansa towns of the north, andĪfter 1600 in larger chunks of the north, and after 1700 in England, Rhetoric that accompany sophisticated economic thinking "happenedĪfter 1300 in isolated parts of the European south. (1) Instead, McCloskey reminds us that the innovations of Hutcheson and Carmichael, or indeed, anywhere in the eighteenth centuryĪt all. Sophisticated economic thinking did not begin with Adam Smith, or with
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Lesson for free market economists themselves, however. Things, is laughable" (McCloskey 2006, p. Theįirst of these services is the books' enormous potential success inĭissuading "people who think that capitalism is probably rotten,Īnd who believe that a claim to bourgeois 'virtues,' of all Perform a variety of useful services for free market economists. Retrieved from ĭeirdre McCloskey's Bourgeois Virtues and Bourgeois Dignity
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