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Events • June 20, 2013 

# How Markets and Innovation Became Ethical and Then Suspect 

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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