How the West Got Rich – Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D.

by | Nov 11, 2021

A change in how people honored markets and innovation caused the Industrial Revolution, and then the modern world….People had to start liking “creative destruction,” the new idea that replaces the old…Europeans and then others came to admire entrepreneurs like Ben Franklin and Andrew Carnegie and Bill Gates.

Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World by Deirdre N. McCloskey, Ph.D.

Deirdre N. McCloskey is a professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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