Deirdre McCloskey intervjues av National Review om sin nye bok, Bourgeois Dignity:
"The only explanation for the peculiar birth of the modern world is
speech: At the beginning of the 18th century, people in the Netherlands
and Britain began talking about commerce as a good thing — a novelty at
that time. They gave dignity to the bourgeoisie. And that drove
capitalism, giving birth to the modern world. What changed was the
sociology. That is, what changed was the attitude of the rest of the
society toward businesspeople, and with that new attitude came a change
in government policy. It was suddenly all right to get rich and to
innovate."