An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a go back to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both which keep people back. Arguing for the return to accurate liberal ideals, this engaging and accessible publication evolves, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the concepts initial espoused by eighteenth-century philosophers like Locke, Smith, Voltaire, and Wollstonecraft is good for everyone.

With her trademark wit and deep understanding, McCloskey shows the way the adoption of Enlightenment ideals of liberalism has propelled the freedom and prosperity define the quality of a full life. In her look at, liberalism prospects to equality, but equality does not necessarily lead to liberalism-and the fixation of the left on inequality is counterproductive. Liberalism can be an optimistic philosophy that depends upon the energy of rhetoric instead of arms and on ethics, free of charge speech, and specifics for us to thrive.