September 27, 2017 Deirdre McCloskey nicely summarizes her theory of what did, and what didn’t, cause modern prosperity. September 27, 2017/ Thad Jackson "What made us rich, I argue at no doubt tedious and unreadable length in the Bourgeois Era trilogy, is imagination, ingenuity, radical ideas released. They were released in turn by liberalism, Smith's "liberal plan of [social] equality, [economic] liberty, and legal [justice].""