Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 431 of Art Carden’s and Deirdre McCloskey’s 2018 paper “The Bourgeois Deal: Leave Me Alone, and I’ll Make You Rich” (which is Chapter 10 of this excellent 2018 book edited by Steven Globerman and Jason Clemens):

We also bring good tidings about our bourgeois lives. The innovative bourgeois world we inhabit requires lives of virtue; it also reinforces lives of virtue by providing us with greater scope for family and friends, art, and literature. The Great Enrichment has made us better, not just richer.