Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/292587 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch [ISSN:] 2568-762X [Volume:] 140 [Issue:] 3-4 [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 355-366
Publisher: 
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
Abstract: 
What can we learn about applied price theory from the Bourgeois Era? In this paper, we contend there are three important lessons that can be extracted from McCloskey's work on the Great Enrichment. First, transaction costs are not constraints, but objects of choice. Second, property rights are not merely a "bundle of sticks," in that private property rights make exchange possible, but a culture of liberal ideas makes exchange viable. Third, ideas conducive to liberalism give rise to generalized increasing returns to the scope, rather than scale, of market exchange, which generated the Great Enrichment.
Subjects: 
Bourgeois Era
Culture
Deirdre McCloskey
Price Theory
Property Rights
Transaction Costs
JEL: 
A23
B53
O43
P16
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Document Type: 
Article

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