Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008
2025/07/03 by Matthew Ryan · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Australian History and Society
paper · doi:10.1080/14443058.2025.2532962
openalex publication_date 2025/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Abstract
Hannah Forsyth’s Virtue Capitalists has been praised—first by Claire E. F. Wright, then by that doyen of economic history, Adam Tooze—as “the sort of book that changes how you see the world”.1 Fors...
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