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, 2023582Jan 1, 2023582
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Entanglement of Polanyi’s EmbeddednessA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 58 “Yet Polanyi was Right about Embeddedness”Oct 14, 202275Oct 14, 202275
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDProfit Seeking is EgalitarianA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 59 “Trade-Tested Betterment is Democratic in Consumption”Oct 22, 202253Oct 22, 202253
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAnd Profit Seeking Frees Workers, too.A Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 60 “And Liberating in Production”Oct 29, 2022462Oct 29, 2022462
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, 202287Nov 5, 202287
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDThe Great Conversion Threatens the Great EnrichmentA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 62 “After 1848 the Clerisy Converted to Antibetterment”Nov 11, 20221451Nov 11, 20221451
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, 202287Nov 18, 202287
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, 20221673Dec 2, 20221673
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDBoth the Right and the Left Oppose the BourgeoisA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 65 “Despite the Clerisy’s Doubts”Dec 9, 2022105Dec 9, 2022105
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, 2022971Dec 17, 2022971
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDPolanyi’s Rose Colored GlassesA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 57 “And Many Polanyish Ideas from the Left”Oct 8, 202254Oct 8, 202254
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, 20221501Sep 30, 20221501
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, 202250Sep 23, 202250
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDBut It Was a Shallow ChangeA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 53 “It Was Not a Deep Cultural Change”Sep 16, 202225Sep 16, 202225
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDIt Was a Rapid Revision of RhetoricA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 52 “And Its Rhetoric Can Change Quickly”Sep 9, 2022100Sep 9, 2022100
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, 202249Jul 8, 202249
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDAttitudes towards Bourgeois Betterment Historically HostileA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 45 “Talk had been Hostile to Betterment”Jul 15, 202250Jul 15, 202250
InILLUMINATIONbyEllen Clardy, PhDOur Language Shows Historic, and Current, Disdain for the BourgeoisA Discussion of Bourgeois Equality Chapter 46 “The Hostility was Ancient”Jul 29, 202250Jul 29, 202250
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, 202250Aug 7, 202250
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, 202225Aug 12, 202225