How Long to Read The Bourgeois Virtues

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bourgeois Virtues?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 54 minutes to read The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.

How long is The Bourgeois Virtues?

The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is 637 pages long, and a total of 163,709 words.

This makes it 215% the length of the average book. It also has 200% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bourgeois Virtues Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 54 minutes to read The Bourgeois Virtues aloud.

What Reading Level is The Bourgeois Virtues?

The Bourgeois Virtues is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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