InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDWe Need to Bring Back Virtue Not Give Up on EconomicsA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 67 “A Change in Rhetoric Made Modernity, and Can Spread It”Jan 1, 20232Jan 1, 20232
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Entanglement of Polanyi’s EmbeddednessA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 58 “Yet Polanyi was Right about Embeddedness”Oct 14, 2022Oct 14, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDProfit Seeking is EgalitarianA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 59 “Trade-Tested Betterment is Democratic in Consumption”Oct 22, 2022Oct 22, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAnd Profit Seeking Frees Workers, too.A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 60 “And Liberating in Production”Oct 29, 20222Oct 29, 20222
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDMost of All, Profit Seeking is Even Good for the PoorA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 61 “And Therefore Bourgeois Rhetoric Was Better for the Poor”Nov 5, 2022Nov 5, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Great Conversion Threatens the Great EnrichmentA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 62 “After 1848 the Clerisy Converted to Antibetterment”Nov 11, 20221Nov 11, 20221
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Elite Replaced the Bourgeois Deal with Ones that Put Them in ChargeA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 63 “The Clerisy Betrayed the Bourgeois Deal, and Approved the Bolshevik and Bismarckian Deals”Nov 18, 2022Nov 18, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDPeter Pan Bohemians Think They Know Best How We Should LiveA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 64 “Anticonsumerism and Pro-Bohemianism were Fruits of the Antibetterment Reaction”Dec 2, 20223Dec 2, 20223
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDBoth the Right and the Left Oppose the BourgeoisA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 65 “Despite the Clerisy’s Doubts”Dec 9, 2022Dec 9, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDEquality of Genuine Comfort is Under ThreatA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 66 “What Matters Ethically is not Equality of Outcome, but the Condition of the Working Class”Dec 17, 20221Dec 17, 20221
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDPolanyi’s Rose Colored GlassesA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 57 “And Many Polanyish Ideas from the Left”Oct 8, 2022Oct 8, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDKnowing the Source of the Great Enrichment Is CrucialA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 56 “The Change in Ideas Contradicts Many Ideas from the Political Middle, 1890–1980”Sep 30, 20221Sep 30, 20221
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDIdeas Were, and Are, the Driving ForceA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 54 “Yes, It Was Ideas, Not Interests or Institutions, That Changed, Suddenly, in Northwestern…Sep 23, 2022Sep 23, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDBut It Was a Shallow ChangeA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 53 “It Was Not a Deep Cultural Change”Sep 16, 2022Sep 16, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDIt Was a Rapid Revision of RhetoricA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 52 “And Its Rhetoric Can Change Quickly”Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDIdeas Matter: Respect for the Bourgeois Led to the Great EnrichmentA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 44 “The Rhetorical Change was Necessary, and May be SufficientJul 8, 2022Jul 8, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAttitudes towards Bourgeois Betterment Historically HostileA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 45 “Talk had been Hostile to Betterment”Jul 15, 2022Jul 15, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDOur Language Shows Historic, and Current, Disdain for the BourgeoisA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 46 “The Hostility was Ancient”Jul 29, 2022Jul 29, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDYet the Roots of Bourgeois Respect were ChristianA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 47 “Yet Some Christians Anticipated a Respected Bourgeoisie”Aug 7, 2022Aug 7, 2022
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAnd the New Bourgeois Respect Created Vested Interests Supportive of the Great EnrichmentA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 48 “And Betterment, Though Long Disdained, Developed Its Own Vested Interests”Aug 12, 2022Aug 12, 2022