The Baroque Cycle

The Baroque Cycle is a good fictional complement to Deirdre McCloskey's nonfiction Bourgeois trilogy.

Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity - Quillette

They are [letters] from brothers of mine in Europe. They tell a story – albeit in a fragmentary and patchwork way – of a sea-change that is spreading across…

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