Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:18:41 BST CiteULike: heraclitus's Mccloskey http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/author/Mccloskey CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/1325121 <i>Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 21, No. 2. (1983), pp. 481-517.</i> The Rhetoric of Economics Donald Mccloskey doi:10.2307/2724987 Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 21, No. 2. (1983), pp. 481-517. 2007-05-24T13:30:21-00:00 1983 Journal of Economic Literature 21 2 481 517 economics rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2855218 <i>(30 November 2000)</i><br /><br />In this thoroughly engaging book Deirdre McCloskey puts the "dismal science" under the microscope. She offers advice to young economists, offering models from the old; and she lambastes the middle-aged who have allowed economics to become, as she puts it with characteristic verve, "a boys' game in a sandbox." McCloskey deploys her wit and style to serious purpose: to bring economics back to science. Anyone can learn about the field of economics from _How to Be Human_. She can learn how economics works as a discipline and as a piece of sociology, who the heroes are and the villains, how a career in economics relates to matters of ethics and epistemology. She can learn what it is like to be a new woman in a boys' subject, a subject that avoids at all costs the word "love." During the 1990s Deirdre McCloskey established herself as the main internal critic of the economic mainstream. Her quarterly columns in the _Eastern Economic Journal,_ many of which are collected here, have become a handbook for reform. Trained in economics herself, she knows the normal science of the field from the inside: she has done it as a distinguished economic historian; and has watched it work from the faculties of Chicago (for twelve years) and Iowa (for nineteen), and now at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her criticism from the inside is that the two methods on which economics has depended since the 1940s--existence-theorem mathematics and significance- testing statistics--are nonsense. They have, she claims, nothing to do with economic science, and have massively diverted economists from finding out how the economy works. McCloskey's book is written for anyone interested in economics, whether trained in it or not--anyone who cares about the economy but is not taken in by the boys' game. Deirdre McCloskey is University Professor of the Human Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. How to Be Human: Through an Economist Deirdre Mccloskey (30 November 2000) 2008-06-01T17:59:37-00:00 2000 University of Michigan Press economics rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2855217 <i>(30 April 1998)</i><br /><br />Deirdre N. McCloskey teaches economics and history at the University of Iowa and is the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Author of a dozen books in economics and history, she was formerly known as Donald. Her experience in changing gender is reflected in the new edition, but the message remains the same: economics needs to get serious about its rhetoric, and back to science. *Completely revised *Three new chapters, two new bibliographies *Publishing history: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences) Deirdre Mccloskey (30 April 1998) 2008-06-01T17:59:09-00:00 1998 University of Wisconsin Press economics rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2854467 <i>(17 March 2009)</i><br /><br />_ _“It is only by argument, by conflict if you like, that economics makes progress." John Maynard Keynes. ****_ _The Economic Conversation, by Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak, is a groundbreaking new first-year undergraduate principles of economics textbook that does far more than teach the basic principles.  It uses entertaining and insightful dialogues in the text to actively involve and engage students in the debates surrounding economic arguments.  _ _The dialogues take the form of candid and lively conversations among the three authors and a group of student characters, who give voice to the kind of probing questions and insights made by real students as they grapple with this challenging subject for the first time.  Through these conversations, students are memorably introduced to the assumptions, goals and values that underlie economic principles in a manner that actually shows them how to make economic arguments themselves._ _Innovative pedagogical features, including technical workshops and concept checks interspersed throughout the text, ensure that students gain a firm grasp of the subject matter. These features, combined with the authors’ clear and entertaining writing style, make this book an exceptionally accessible and engaging text that will inspire and excite students’ interest._ _The Economic Conversation is designed for full-year economics courses covering micro- and macroeconomic principles, but it is priced to be competitive with “split” editions, making it suitable for semester, quarter or modular courses in introductory microeconomics or macroeconomics._ _For more information and for an introduction to the "conversation" please visit: http://theeconomicconversation.com/students.php_ _ The Economic Conversation Arjo Klamer Deirdre Mccloskey Stephen Ziliak (17 March 2009) 2008-06-01T10:40:31-00:00 2009 Palgrave Macmillan rhetorical textbook http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2785807 <i>Feminist Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2. (1996), pp. 137-140.</i><br /><br />It is true that economics needs a theory of moral sentiments along with an account of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Economics is damaged analytically by ignoring love, or care. But love is not always nice, and is sometimes a threat to freedom. Love and money: A comment on the markets debate Deirdre Mccloskey doi:10.1080/13545709610001707696 Feminist Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2. (1996), pp. 137-140. 2008-05-11T20:48:43-00:00 1996 Feminist Economics 2 2 137 140 Routledge feminist rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2749276 <i>(15 October 2007)</i><br /><br /><DIV><DIV>For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned<BR>the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie,” and David Brooks’s “bobos” all have been, and still are, framed as responsible for everything from financial and moral poverty to world wars and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s <I>The Bourgeois Virtues</I>, a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us.<BR><BR>McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with astonishing erudition and range of reference. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. <BR><I><BR>High Noon</I>, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and, of course, economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. <I>The Bourgeois Virtues </I>is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.</DIV></DIV> The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce Deirdre Mccloskey (15 October 2007) 2008-05-03T17:06:47-00:00 2007 University Of Chicago Press economics enemy rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/202646 <i>(01 August 2000)</i> The Vices of Economists-The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie Deirdre Mccloskey (01 August 2000) 2005-05-18T16:46:58-00:00 2000 Amsterdam University Press economics rhetorical virtue-ethics http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/202639 <i>(05 May 1994)</i> Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics Deirdre Mccloskey (05 May 1994) 2005-05-18T16:46:15-00:00 1994 Cambridge University Press economics rhetorical http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/202640 <i>(15 May 1992)</i> If You're So Smart : The Narrative of Economic Expertise Donald Mccloskey (15 May 1992) 2005-05-18T16:46:37-00:00 1992 University Of Chicago Press economics rhetorical