McCloskey is correct that the ‘Great Enrichment’ came from the emancipation of human ingenuity made possible by the development of liberalism. We add to this that the ‘enrichment’ has a strong moral dimension when understood in terms of the neo-Aristotelian account of human flourishing...

How social systems function and how they are accepted in different countries depends not least on the respective political culture. This culture cannot simply be derived from the world region in which a particular country is located. Rather, a colorful picture emerges globally, which the authors...