Title:The Vindication of Karl Marx Source: Whole Earth Review Author: Elin Whitney-Smith Publication Date: Spring 1992 Page Number: 86-92 Database: SIRS Researcher Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
itle:The Moral Meanings of Work Source: American Prospect Author: Alan Wolfe Publication Date: Sept./Oct. 1997 Page Number: 82-90 Database: SIRS Researcher Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
this article is ok too, although also difficult reading
Summary:
"European culture in classical and Christian times spurned work and the bourgeoisie. Yet from 1600 to 1800, startlingly, it developed a lively appreciation of the 'bourgeois virtues', from which came the stirrings of enterprise that made the modern world. But after 1848 the artists and intellectuals turned sharply against capitalism. From this, alas, came the events of 1914 and 1917 and all our woe. That's the forward story. But the historical evidence of how people have felt about capitalism and the bourgeois life, and what capitalism and the bourgeois life might have to do with ethics, is perhaps best assembled backwards." (History Today) Attitudes towards economic life throughout history, from the contemporary clerisy's distrust of capitalism to "the ancient Christian and ancient aristocratic disdain for the bourgeoisie," are examined.
3 True, the feeling has been eroded recently, by the failures of socialism in practice and by the successes of let-it-rip capitalism in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and now, of all places, Communist China and Licence-Raj India. Yet the anti-bourgeois, anti-capitalism hangs on, more in the already capitalized West than in the up-and-coming East. In university departments of English and sociology, if in few other places, Marxism still rules.
2 Contrast the world of Shakespeare. The warm virtues, Love and Courage, Faith and Hope, the virtues praised most often by Shakespeare, and least by Adam Smith, are specifically and essentially non-calculative.
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Title: The Vindication of Karl Marx
Source: Whole Earth Review
Author: Elin Whitney-Smith
Publication Date: Spring 1992
Page Number: 86-92
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
itle: The Moral Meanings of Work
Source: American Prospect
Author: Alan Wolfe
Publication Date: Sept./Oct. 1997
Page Number: 82-90
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
this article is ok too, although also difficult reading
Title: Democratic Capitalism: Moral, Or Not at All
Source: Freedom Review
Author: Michael Novak
Publication Date: May/June 1991
Page Number: 12-14
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: The Discreet Virtues of the Bourgeoisie
Source: History Today (London, England) Vol. 56, No. 9
Author: Deirdre McCloskey
Publication Date: Sept. 2006
Page Number: 20-27
Database: SIRS Renaissance
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Subject headings: Capitalism
Capitalism, History
Economics, Sociological aspects
Honor
Middle class
Middle class, Attitudes
Summary:
"European culture in classical and Christian times spurned work and the bourgeoisie. Yet from 1600 to 1800, startlingly, it developed a lively appreciation of the 'bourgeois virtues', from which came the stirrings of enterprise that made the modern world. But after 1848 the artists and intellectuals turned sharply against capitalism. From this, alas, came the events of 1914 and 1917 and all our woe. That's the forward story. But the historical evidence of how people have felt about capitalism and the bourgeois life, and what capitalism and the bourgeois life might have to do with ethics, is perhaps best assembled backwards." (History Today) Attitudes towards economic life throughout history, from the contemporary clerisy's distrust of capitalism to "the ancient Christian and ancient aristocratic disdain for the bourgeoisie," are examined.
2 Contrast the world of Shakespeare. The warm virtues, Love and Courage, Faith and Hope, the virtues praised most often by Shakespeare, and least by Adam Smith, are specifically and essentially non-calculative.
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Title: An Illicit Affair: Underground Markets--Below the Radar
Source: Harvard International Review Vol. XXVII, No. 4
Author: John McMillan
Publication Date: Winter 2006
Page Number: 46-50
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>