Finally, in 1995, at the age of fifty-three, it was time for McCloskey to cross the gender line. Crossing is the story of McCloskey’s dramatic and poignant transformation from Donald to Dee to Deirdre.

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession.

Going against the grain of contemporary neo-institutional and behavioral economics which privilege observation over understanding, she asserts her vision of “humanomics,” which draws on the work of Bart Wilson, Vernon Smith, and most ...

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people ...

If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it.

Your future readers will be thankful.” —Journal of Scholarly Publishing Economics is not a field known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey.

In this lively volume, McCloskey and the economist and journalist Art Carden bring together the trilogy’s key ideas and its most provocative arguments.

In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, arguing for a re-focusing on the liberated human.

Deirdre McCloskey propose un tour d'horizon des péchés des économistes – réels et supposés, pardonnables et "mortels" – qui pourraient justifier cette accusation.

Barbara Bergmann has a tough style of confrontation and a scientific style of asking How Big Is Big. Economics would be a lot better off if it dropped Mathematical "Proof" and "Statistical Significance" and started simulating Barbara.