Capitalism Without Tears
A Review of McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues

Interesting write-up by the anonymous blogger of Big Sky Ideas, 20 February 2012.

McCloskey "has written a bracingly well-informed and original book. She argues that capitalism, far from being immoral as much of the left think, or amoral as many libertarians believe, is in fact fully compatible with human and ethical flourishing. And its record on actually encouraging flourishing is much better than the alternatives."

"Whether we segregate capitalists from capitalist poets, we nonetheless come to the same conclusion as Emerson and McCloskey — that commerce creates the potential for humans to be good."