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Historically, Poor was Normal
A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 1 “The World is Pretty Rich, But Once was Poor”
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5 min readJul 28, 2021
In my teaching and research, I keep coming back to the question of why an economy grows, with the hope of that knowledge helping those that don’t.
Dr. Deirdre McCloskey wrote a trilogy of books exploring this issue. While her degrees are in economics, her background spans far beyond and she has had professorships in history, English and communications.
Frustrated with the direction of economics in the 1980s at the University of Chicago, she commenced an interdisciplinary study of the humanities. When I read her writings I can see the depth and breadth of her knowledge.
