Deirdre McCloskey on entrepreneurs as heroes

See Interview on Piketty. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey interviewed by Tomasz Wróblewski.

See Niecni intelektualiści i cnotliwa burżuazja for the interview in Polish. Google translates that into "Bad intellectuals and a virtuous bourgeoisie."

Here is the key passage:

"And making the trade-tested betterers—the entrepreneurs, the creative destroyers—into our heroes is a model for our much more modest betterments. It inspires us. If our only heroes are kings and football players, we do not give honor to the people who are in fact improving our economy, and we have less interest in doing it ourselves."

McCloskey is not the only one to say things like this. Here is a link to my own review of the topic

Does It Matter If We Call Entrepreneurs Heroes?

See also The Importance of Entrepreneurs: An Interview with Deirdre McCloskey. From Austrian Economics Center. Excerpt:

"What can we do to champion entrepreneurship and innovation again?

Write long books in its praise. Interview people praising it in magazines. And (more seriously) persuade artists, especially popular artists, to see enterprise as virtuous."