Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital, Enriched the World with Deirdre McCloskey
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What makes us better off? Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of History, Economics, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, delivered a lecture at the Legatum Institute that argued ideas, rather than capital, play a crucial role. In this short clip, the Legatum Institute's Hywel Williams interviews McCloskey about her research.
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