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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Art Carden ...

A "thought-provoking" one-volume distillation of the author's powerful trilogy in praise of the middle class's role in creating a better, and richer, world ( Library Journal).The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois ... Read more

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A "thought-provoking" one-volume distillation of the author's powerful trilogy in praise of the middle class's role in creating a better, and richer, world ( Library Journal).The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois
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Bourgeois Equality

How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Read more

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How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the
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Crossing

A Transgender Memoir

by Deirdre Nansen ...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am."Once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s privilege, Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald) had wanted to change genders ... Read more

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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year"I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am."Once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s privilege, Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald) had wanted to change genders
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Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.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. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in ... Read more

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A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics.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. The behaviorist positivism fashionable in the field since the 1930s treats people from the outside. It yielded in
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Bettering Humanomics

A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science.Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans ... Read more

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science.Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor—not just materially but spiritually. In Bettering Humanomics she continues her intellectually playful yet rigorous analysis with a focus on humans
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Economical Writing, Third Edition

Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose

by Stephen T. Ziliak, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
"The book every entrepreneur should read. . . . Better than Strunk and White. . . . The work of a master."--Stephen Kinsella, University of LimerickEconomics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic ... Read more

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"The book every entrepreneur should read. . . . Better than Strunk and White. . . . The work of a master."--Stephen Kinsella, University of LimerickEconomics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no.Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic
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The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak ...

Series series Economics, Cognition, And Society
“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel ... Read more

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“McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to.”—Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel
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The Bourgeois Virtues

Ethics for an Age of Commerce

by Deirdre Nansen ...

First in The Bourgeois Era trilogy. "A significant contribution to the study of the moral basis of economic life and thought . . . her vision is original." —Jonathan S. Feinstein, Journal of Economic LiteratureFor a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the ... Read more

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First in The Bourgeois Era trilogy. "A significant contribution to the study of the moral basis of economic life and thought . . . her vision is original." —Jonathan S. Feinstein, Journal of Economic LiteratureFor a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the
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Bourgeois Dignity

Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre Nansen ...

Second in The Bourgeois Era trilogy. "McCloskey has embarked on a heroic enterprise, the wholesale reconsideration of the modern capitalist economy." —Alan Ryan, author of On PoliticsThe big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had ... Read more

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Second in The Bourgeois Era trilogy. "McCloskey has embarked on a heroic enterprise, the wholesale reconsideration of the modern capitalist economy." —Alan Ryan, author of On PoliticsThe big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had
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Why Liberalism Works

How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...

An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by ... Read more

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An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the worldThe greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how embracing the ideas first espoused by
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The Dialectics of Liberty

Exploring the Context of Human Freedom

by John F. Welsh, Douglas J. Den Uyl, Stephan Kinsella, Robert L. Campbell, Robert Higgs, Steven Horwitz, Roderick T. Long, Gary Chartier, Billy Christmas, Kevin A. Carson, Jason Lee Byas0, Troy Camplin1, Chris Matthew Sciabarra2, Prof Edward W. Younkins4, Douglas B. Rasmussen6, Nathan Goodman7, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey8, David L. Prychitko9, Roger E. Bissell0 ...

Series series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly ... Read more

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This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly
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Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy

Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics

Edited by Eugene Heath, Byron Kaldis ...

The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how government contracts are handed out. Yet for as deep and complex a field as business ethics is, it has remained relatively isolated from the larger, ... Read more

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The moral dimensions of how we conduct business affect all of our lives in ways big and small, from the prevention of environmental devastation to the policing of unfair trading practices, from arguments over minimum wage rates to those over how government contracts are handed out. Yet for as deep and complex a field as business ethics is, it has remained relatively isolated from the larger,
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