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# How Markets and Innovation Became Ethical and Then Suspect 

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June 20, 2013 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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Featuring **Deirdre N. McCloskey**, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, Author, *The Bourgeois Virtues* and *Bourgeois Dignity*; with comments by **Donald J. Boudreaux**, Professor of Economics, George Mason University; moderated by **Dalibor Rohac**, Policy Analyst, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute. 

The rise of the West can be understood only as a result of an ideological change that occurred in England in the 17th century and of the emergence of a “bourgeois deal” through which entrepreneurs were let free to engage in innovation and creative destruction, so argues Deirdre McCloskey in her forthcoming book, *The Treasured Bourgeoisie: How Markets and Innovation Became Ethical, 1600–1848, and Then Suspect*. Please join us for a discussion that will link culture, ethics and rhetoric with entrepreneurship and economic development.

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