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Loving Jack by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…The author finds that, as a Marxist of the postmodern kind, Jack Amariglio's genuine commitment to engaging with different frameworks has enabled much-needed…”
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Critical thinking on the Samuelsonian Gospel according to John and David by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…In Rortyan fashion, John and David (Siegfried and Colander 2022, 71-84) declare that the critical thinker will "try to learn from others rather than argue with…”
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What quantitative methods should we teach to graduate students? A comment on Swann's "Is precise econometrics an illusion?" by Nansen McCloskey, Deirdre, Ziliak, Stephen T.

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Lachmann practiced humanomics, beyond the dogma of behaviorism by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Ludwig Lachmann knew that economists walked on both feet, the quantitative, positivistic one and the qualitative, humanistic one. He was practicing…”
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Getting over naïve scientism c. 1950: what Fogel and North got wrong by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Fogel and North, both of them old radicals in the 1950s, received the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1993 for their advocacy—and practice—during the 1960s and 1970s…”
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THE TWO MOVEMENTS IN ECONOMIC THOUGHT, 1700-2000: EMPTY ECONOMIC BOXES REVISITED by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

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The Rhetoric of the Economy and the Polity by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…The Great Recession is not the end of capitalism. An innovative economy makes mistakes, but that is not a good reason to regulate it out of its innovations…”
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Why Economics cannot Explain the Modern World by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Why indeed? Because the Great Fact, 1800 to the present, incomes rising by a factor of a factor of 30, and higher if quality is acknowledged, cannot be…”
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Measured, unmeasured, mismeasured, and unjustified pessimism: a review essay of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Capital in the twenty-first century, by Thomas Piketty, is reviewed…”
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Austrians should reject North and Acemoglu: Some critical reflections on Peter Boettke’s The Struggle for a Better World by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…In an otherwise amiable review of a book by Peter Boettke, McCloskey observes that the neo-institutionalism of North, Acemoglu, and Boettke is statist,…”
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Schumpeter the incomplete rhetorician by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Schumpeter’s Capitalism Socialism, Democracy was typical of 1942 in being pessimistic about all three terms of its title. Socialism would come, he thought, but…”
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Been there, done that by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Deirdre McCloskey describes her gender transition process in 1995 while teaching at the University of Iowa. She left for a year to teach in Holland. She was…”
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Past and Future of Humanomics: A Conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen, Silvestri, Paolo

“…An interview with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication at the…”
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Tunzelmann, Schumpeter, and the Hockey Stick by McCloskey, Deirdre N.

“…The article reviews theoretical approaches and methods of conventional economics and economic history to address the fundamental question of why the world's…”
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The Great Enrichment: A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…From 1800 to the present the average person on the planet has been enriched in real terms by a factor of 10, or some 900 percent. In the ever-rising share of…”
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Getting beyond neo-institutionalism: Virgil Storr’s culture of markets by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Storr is a free trader in ideas, bringing back into economics meaning , long banished by behaviorist dogma. His elegant little book, though, is too kind to…”
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"Adam Smith did Humanomics: So Should We" by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Economics ignores persuasion in the economy. The economics of asymmetric "information" or common "knowledge" over the past 40 years speaks of costs and…”
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The great enrichment: a humanistic and social scientific account by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…The scientific problem in explaining modern economic growth is its astonishing magnitude - anywhere from a 3000% to a 10,000% increase in real income, a 'Great…”
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Past and Future of Humanomics: A Conversation with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen, Silvestri, Paolo

“…Paolo Silvestri interviews Deirdre Nansen McCloskey on the occasion of her latest book, Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science…”
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Neo-institutionalism is not yet a scientific success: a reply to Barry Weingast by McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen

“…Barry Weingast agrees that the idea of liberalism was crucial for the making of the modern world, though in most of his comment he turns to his own writings…”
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