Video: Deirdre McCloskey on bourgeois liberty and the Great Enrichment

The Torch of Progress, Episode 5

by Jason Crawford · July 7, 2020 · 1 min read

I talked to Deirdre McCloskey for the fifth episode of “The Torch of Progress”, the speaker series of Progress Studies For Young Scholars. Topics include the role of bourgeois liberty in the Great Enrichment, how England surpassed the Netherlands, and why she doesn’t think that science or patent laws can explain the Industrial Revolution.

Audio/podcast version on SoundCloud.

Upcoming events (all at 10am Pacific time):

• July 8: Joel Mokyr on “Attitudes, Aptitudes, and Progress: How the Modern Age Got Started ”
• July 15: Noor Siddiqui, founder of Orchid Bioscience
• July 22: Anton Howes, author of Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation
• July 29: Danica Remy, president of the Asteroid Institute, on “Astronauts, Asteroids, Astrophysicists and Rock Stars”
• August 19: Laura Mazer, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan

For more about the program, see my announcement.

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