“Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has ‘civilized’ the world in more than one of the word’s root senses, that is, making it ‘citified,’ from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many eighteenth-century European writers also claimed, made it courteous, that is, ‘civil.’ ‘The terrestrial paradise,’ said Voltaire, ‘is Paris.'”
—Deirdre N. McCloskey, Bourgeois Virtues
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