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| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Economical Writing, Third Edition Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 2019-05-17 Write clearly about any subject: “Writers should check out Economical Writing, and editors should recommend 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. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic history, enlivening the dismal science and engaging readers well beyond the discipline. And now she’s here to share the secrets of how it’s done, no matter what your field. Economical Writing is itself economical: a collection of thirty-five pithy rules for making your writing clear, concise, and effective. Proceeding from big-picture ideas to concrete strategies for improvement at the level of the paragraph, sentence, or word, McCloskey shows us that good writing, after all, is not just a matter of taste—it’s a product of adept intuition and a rigorous revision process. Debunking stale rules, warning us that “footnotes are nests for pedants,” and offering an arsenal of readily applicable tools and methods, she shows writers of all levels of experience how to rethink the way they approach their work, and gives them the knowledge to turn mediocre prose into magic. At once efficient and digestible, hilarious and provocative, Economical Writing lives up to its promise. With McCloskey as our guide, we discover how any piece of writing—on economics or any other subject—can be a pleasure to read. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Economical Writing Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2000 The implied reader of my little book is a student of economics or of related fields who needs to write. The book originated in a course for graduate economics students at the University of Chicago in the 1970s. -- preface, page ix. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: If You're So Smart Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1990-09-07 In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives. Writing with delicious wit and great seriousness.—Publishers Weekly. McCloskey is more interesting on an uninspired day than most of her peers can manage at their very best.—Peter Passell, New York Times |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1994-05-05 Argues that economics is a science, but a human science: a witty guide to the ins and outs of economic philosophy. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Bettering Humanomics Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 2023-06-05 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 rather than the institutions. 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 prominently, Adam Smith. She argues for an economics that uses a comprehensive understanding of human action beyond behaviorism. McCloskey clearly articulates her points of contention with believers in “imperfections,” from Samuelson to Stiglitz, claiming that they have neglected scientific analysis in their haste to diagnose the ills of the system. In an engaging and erudite manner, she reaffirms the global successes of market-tested betterment and calls for empirical investigation that advances from material incentives to an awareness of the human within historical and ethical frameworks. Bettering Humanomics offers a critique of contemporary economics and a proposal for an economics as a better human science. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Student's Guide to Writing Economics Robert H. Neugeboren, 2005-10-11 Understanding the way economists see the world is a necessary step on the way to good economics writing. This book guides students through the means and methods of economics writing, by taking a step by step approach investigating: the keys needed to succeed as a writer of economics and an overview of the writing process from beginning to end the basic methods economists use to analyze data and communicate their ideas suggestions for finding and focusing one's topic, including standard economic sources and techniques for doing economic research how to write paper ways of citing sources and creating a bibliography. It also contains useful appendices, which provide details of statistical sources and relevant electronic indices. Used as a standard guide for economics students at Harvard University, this book is of immense practical use to economics students the world over. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Bourgeois Virtues Deirdre Nansen, 2010-03-15 For 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 marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. 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 her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. 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. High Noon, 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. The Bourgeois Virtues 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. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Measurement and Meaning in Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2001 A collection of writings on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. McCloskey (human sciences, U. of Illinois, Chicago) argues that economics has become ahistorical and narrowly scientific--a harmful development for a moral science; she has declared that economics would improve if economists would read more novels. The papers here, spanning the 1970s, '80s and '90s, work toward exploring and repairing the dysfunctional relationship between economics and the humanities. c. Book News Inc. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Bourgeois Dignity Deirdre Nansen, 2010-11-15 The 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 denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe. Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in Bourgeois Dignity, a fiercely contrarian history that wages a similar argument about economics in the West. Here she turns her attention to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was not the product of new markets and innovations, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private property, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, becoming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about markets and free enterprise finally became enthusiastic and encouraging of their inherent dignity. An utterly fascinating sequel to her critically acclaimed book The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians—a work that will forever change our understanding of how the power of persuasion shapes our economic lives. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: How to be Human-- Though an Economist Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2000 A witty and thoughtful romp through the profession and practice of economics |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Bourgeois Equality Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2017-10-13 The last 200 years have witnessed a 100-fold leap in well-being. Deirdre McCloskey argues that most people today are stunningly better off than their forbearers were in 1800, and that the rest of humanity will soon be. A purely materialist, incentivist view of economic change does not explain this leap. We have now the third in McCloskey's three-volume opus about how bourgeois values transformed Europe. Volume 3 nails the case for that transfiguration, telling us how aristocratic virtues of hierarchy were replaced by bourgeois virtues (more precisely, by attitudes toward virtues) that made it possible for ordinary folk with novel ideas to change the way people, farmed, manufactured, traveled, ruled themselves, and fought. It is a dramatic story, and joins a dramatic debate opened up by Thomas Piketty in his best-selling Capital in the 21st Century. McCloskey insists that economists are far too preoccupied by capital and saving, arguing against the position (of Piketty and most others) that capital induces a tendency to get more, that money reproduces itself, that riches are created from riches. Not so, our intrepid McCloskey shows. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, among the biggest wealth accumulators in our era, didn't get rich through the magic of compound interest on capital. They got rich through intellectual property, creating billions of dollars from virtually nothing. Capital was no more important an ingredient to the original Apple or Microsoft than cookies or cucumbers. The debate is between those who think riches are created from riches versus those who, with McCloskey, think riches are created from rags, between those who see profits as a generous return on capital, or profits coming from innovation that ultimately benefits us all. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Why Liberalism Works Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 2019-01-01 An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defense of 'true liberalism' as opposed to its well-meaning rivals on the left and the right. Erudite, but marvelously accessible and written in a style that is at once colloquial and astringent.--Stanley Fish The 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 eighteenth-century philosophers like Locke, Smith, Voltaire, and Wollstonecraft is good for everyone. With her trademark wit and deep understanding, McCloskey shows how the adoption of Enlightenment ideals of liberalism has propelled the freedom and prosperity that define the quality of a full life. In her view, liberalism leads to equality, but equality does not necessarily lead to liberalism. Liberalism is an optimistic philosophy that depends on the power of rhetoric rather than coercion, and on ethics, free speech, and facts in order to thrive. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Alberto Mingardi, 2020-10-16 A common narrative of the post-World War II economists was that the State is indispensable for guiding investment and fostering innovation. They claimed that the wealth of the modern world is the result of past State guidance and that what is needed for future economic growth is more State guidance. This position has recently been rejuvenated in reaction to the Great Recession of 2008. The truth is that the enriched modern economy was not a product of State coercion. It was a product of a change in political and social rhetoric in northwestern Europe from 1517 to 1789. The Great Enrichment, that is, came from human ingenuity emancipated from the bottom up, not human ingenuity directed from the top down. The true question is what on balance is the best way to organize innovation—by the “wise State” or by commercially tested betterment? The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity. The Adam Smith Institute is one of the world's leading think tanks, recognised as the best domestic and international economic policy think-tank in the UK and ranked 2nd in the world among Independent Think Tanks by the University of Pennsylvania. Independent, non-profit and non-partisan, the Adam Smith Institute works to promote free market, neoliberal ideas through research, publishing, media outreach, and education. The Institute is today at the forefront of making the case for free markets and a free society in the United Kingdom. The Institute was founded in the 1970s, as post-war socialism reached its high-watermark. Then, as now, its purpose was to educate the public about free markets and economic policy, and to inject sound ideas into the public debate. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: A Guide for the Young Economist William Thomson, 2001 In clear, concise language--a model for what he advocates--William Thomson shows how to make written and oral presentations both inviting and efficient. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Rhetoric of Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1998-05-15 A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a humanomics, and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Crossing Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2009-10-27 We have read the stories of those who have crossed lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing—completely and entirely—the gender line. Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s privilege, and her dramatic and poignant journey to becoming a woman. McCloskey's account of her painstaking efforts to learn to be a woman unearth fundamental questions about gender and identity, and hatreds and anxieties, revealing surprising answers. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Applied Theory of Price Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1985 |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Free Market Fairness John Tomasi, 2013-05-05 A provocative new vision of free market capitalism that achieves liberal ends by libertarian means Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. In place of the familiar social democratic interpretations of social justice, Tomasi offers a market democratic conception of social justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America's founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed, according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice, American style. Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice—one that will challenge readers on both the left and right. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Secret Sins of Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey, 2002 Deidre N. McCloskey's work in economics calls into question its reputation as the dismal science. She writes with passion and an unusually wide scope, drawing on literature and intellectual history in exciting, if unorthodox, ways. In this pamphlet, McCloskey reveals what she sees as the secret sins of economics that no one will discuss - two sins that cripple economics as a scientific enterprise. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Writing of Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey, 1987 |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The New Economic Criticism Martha Woodmansee, Mark Osteen, 2005-10-09 This is a pathbreaking work which develops a new form of economic analysis. This collection brings together 27 essays by influential literary and cultural historians as well as representatives of the vanguard of postmodernist economics. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Crossing Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 2019-09-20 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 from the age of eleven. But it was a different time, one hostile to any sort of straying from the path—against gays, socialists, women with professions, men without hats, and so on—and certainly against gender transition. 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. She chronicles the physical procedures and emotional evolution required and the legal and cultural roadblocks she faced in her journey to womanhood. By turns searing and humorous, this is the unflinching, unforgettable story of her transformation—what she lost, what she gained, and the women who lifted her up along the way. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Writer's Diet Helen Sword, 2016-05-02 This book offers an easy-to-follow set of writing principles. For example, use active verbs whenever possible, favour concrete language over vague abstractions, avoid long strings of prepositional phrases, employ adjectives and adverbs only when they contribute something new to the meaning of a sentence and reduce your dependence on the waste words: 'it', 'this', 'that' and 'there'. The author also shows these rules in action through examples from famous authors such as Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. The book includes a test to help you assess your own writing and get advice on problem areas. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Anti-Piketty Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, Emmanuel Martin, 2017-03-01 Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has enjoyed great success and provides a new theory about wealth and inequality. However, there have been major criticisms of his work. Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century collects key criticisms from 20 specialists—economists, historians, and tax experts—who provide rigorous arguments against Piketty's work while examining the notions of inequality, growth, wealth, and capital. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Cult of Statistical Significance Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Steve Ziliak, 2008-02-19 “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 Prize Laureate in Economics “With humor, insight, piercing logic and a nod to history, Ziliak and McCloskey show how economists—and other scientists—suffer from a mass delusion about statistical analysis. The quest for statistical significance that pervades science today is a deeply flawed substitute for thoughtful analysis. . . . Yet few participants in the scientific bureaucracy have been willing to admit what Ziliak and McCloskey make clear: the emperor has no clothes.” —Kenneth Rothman, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Health The Cult of Statistical Significance shows, field by field, how “statistical significance,” a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ “testing” that doesn’t test and “estimating” that doesn’t estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide the disaster is, and how bad for science, and it traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots. Stephen T. Ziliak is the author or editor of many articles and two books. He currently lives in Chicago, where he is Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University. Deirdre N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of twenty books and three hundred scholarly articles. She has held Guggenheim and National Humanities Fellowships. She is best known for How to Be Human* Though an Economist (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and her most recent book, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006). |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Are Markets Moral? Arthur M. Melzer, Steven J. Kautz, 2018-09-06 Despite the remarkable achievements of free markets—their rapid spread around the world and success at generating economic growth—they tend to elicit anxiety. Creative destruction and destabilizing change provoke feelings of powerlessness in the face of circumstances that portend inevitable catastrophe. Thus, from the beginning, capitalism has been particularly stimulative for the growth of critics and doomsayers. While early analysts such as Karl Marx primarily emphasized an impending economic disaster, in recent years the economic critique of capitalism has receded in favor of moral and environmental concerns. At the heart of this collection of original essays lies the question: does morality demand that we adopt a primarily supportive or critical stance toward capitalism? Some contributors suggest that the foundational principles of the capitalist system may be at odds with the central requirements of morality, while others wonder whether the practical workings of markets slowly erode moral character or hinder the just distribution of goods. Still others consider whether morality itself does not demand the economic freedom constitutive of the capitalist system. The essays in Are Markets Moral? represent a broad array of disciplines, from economics to philosophy to law, and place particular emphasis on the experiences of non-Western countries where the latest chapters in capitalism's history are now being written. Contributors: Andrew S. Bibby, Gurcharan Das, Richard A. Epstein, Fonna Forman, Robert P. George, Steven J. Kautz, Peter Augustine Lawler, Steven Lukes, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Peter McNamara, Arthur M. Melzer, John Tomasi. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: How the World Became Rich Mark Koyama, Jared Rubin, 2022-03-14 Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth happened when and where it did. They discuss recently advanced theories rooted in geography, politics, culture, demography, and colonialism. Pieces of each of these theories help explain key events on the path to modern riches. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in 18th-century Britain? Why did some European countries, the US, and Japan catch up in the 19th century? Why did it take until the late 20th and 21st centuries for other countries? Why have some still not caught up? Koyama and Rubin show that the past can provide a guide for how countries can escape poverty. There are certain prerequisites that all successful economies seem to have. But there is also no panacea. A society’s past and its institutions and culture play a key role in shaping how it may – or may not – develop. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Economics for the Common Good Jean Tirole, 2019-05-14 When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a 'dismal science,' is a positive force for the common good. Economists are rewarded for writing technical papers in scholarly journals, not joining in public debates. But Tirole says we urgently need economists to engage with the many challenges facing society, helping to identify our key objectives and the tools needed to meet them. To show how economics can help us realize the common good, Tirole shares his insights on a broad array of questions affecting our everyday lives and the future of our society, including global warming, unemployment, the post-2008 global financial order, the euro crisis, the digital revolution, innovation, and the proper balance between the free market and regulation. Providing a rich account of how economics can benefit everyone, Economics for the Common Good sets a new agenda for the role of economics in society--Provided by publisher. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The New Holy Wars Robert H. Nelson, 2010 The present debate raging over global warming exemplifies the clash of two public theologies. On one side, environmentalists warn of certain catastrophe if we do not take steps now to reduce the release of greenhouse gases; on the other side, economists are concerned with whether the benefits of actions to prevent higher temperatures will be worth the high costs. Robert Nelson interprets such contemporary struggles as battles between the competing secularized religions of economics and environmentalism. The outcome will have momentous consequences for us all. This book probes beneath the surface of the two movements' rhetoric to uncover their fundamental theological commitments and visions. Book jacket. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Little Book of Research Writing Varanya Chaubey, 2018 2018 Edition. 178 pages.This book is about the first challenge of research writing: how to structure many, complex details into a coherent whole. It offers a method for building a structurally sound research paper from scratch.The book is primarily intended for PhD candidates and postdocs but could also serve researchers on the tenure track. Most examples in the book come from research papers in economics.The method has been taught at various PhD programs, including Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Oxford etc. Learn more at www.econscribe.org |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: The Romantic Economist Richard Bronk, 2009-02-05 Since economies are dynamic processes driven by creativity, social norms, and emotions as well as rational calculation, why do economists largely study them using static equilibrium models and narrow rationalistic assumptions? This book argues that economists should look for new techniques in Romantic poetry and philosophy. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: A Nation of Moochers Charles J. Sykes, 2012-01-17 We have experienced a shift in American character: we've become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts on Wall Street to the alarming increases in personal default and dependency, from questionable tax exemptions to enormous pension, healthcare, and other entitlement costs, the new moocher culture cuts across lines of class, race, and private and public sectors. And the millions that plan and behave sensibly, only to bail out the profligate? They're angry. Charles Sykes' argument is not against compassion or legitimate charity, but targets the new moocher culture, in which self-reliance and personal responsibility have given way to mass grasping after handouts. A Nation of Moochers is a persuasively argued and entertaining rallying cry for Americans who are tired of playing by the rules and paying for those who don't. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: McCloskey's Rhetoric Benjamin Balak, 2006 This unique book examines the use of rhetoric in economics, focusing on the work of one of the discipline's most recognizable names; Deirdre McCloskey. It analyzes her major texts and evaluates their methodological and philosophical consequences. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Creative Historical Thinking Michael Douma, 2018-08-06 Creative Historical Thinking offers innovative approaches to thinking and writing about history. Author Michael J. Douma makes the case that history should be recognized as a subject intimately related to individual experience and positions its practice as an inherently creative endeavor. Douma describes the nature of creativity in historical thought, illustrates his points with case studies and examples. He asserts history’s position as a collective and community-building exercise and argues for the importance of metaphor and other creative tools in communicating about history with people who may view the past in fundamentally different ways. A practical guide and an inspiring affirmation of the personal and communal value of history, Creative Historical Thinking has much to offer to both current and aspiring historians. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Around the World in 80 Words Paul Anthony Jones, 2020-09-01 What makes a place so memorable that it survives forever in a word? In this captivating round-the-world tour, Paul Anthony Jones acts as your guide through the intriguing stories of how eighty places became immortalized in the English language. You’ll discover why the origins of turkeys, limericks, Brazil nuts, and Panama hats aren’t quite as straightforward as you might presume. If you’ve never heard of the tiny Czech mining town of Jáchymov—or Joachimsthal, as it was known until the late 1800s—you’re not alone, which makes its claim to fame as the origin of the word “dollar” all the more extraordinary. The story of how the Great Dane isn’t all that Danish makes the list, as does the Jordanian mountain whose name has become a byword for a tantalizing glimpse. We’ll also find out what the Philippines has given to your office inbox, what Alaska has given to your liquor cabinet, and how a speech given by a bumbling North Carolinian gave us a word for impenetrable nonsense. Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is essential reading for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world—if you know where to look. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Chicago Price Theory Sonia Jaffe, Robert Minton, Casey B. Mulligan, Kevin M. Murphy, 2019-09-10 An authoritative textbook based on the legendary economics course taught at the University of Chicago Price theory is a powerful analytical toolkit for measuring, explaining, and predicting human behavior in the marketplace. This incisive textbook provides an essential introduction to the subject, offering a diverse array of practical methods that empower students to learn by doing. Based on Economics 301, the legendary PhD course taught at the University of Chicago, the book emphasizes the importance of applying price theory in order to master its concepts. Chicago Price Theory features immersive chapter-length examples such as addictive goods, urban-property pricing, the consequences of prohibition, the value of a statistical life, and occupational choice. It looks at human behavior in the aggregate of an industry, region, or demographic group, but also provides models of individuals when they offer insights about the aggregate. The book explains the surprising answers that price theory can provide to practical questions about taxation, education, the housing market, government subsidies, and much more. Emphasizes the application of price theory, enabling students to learn by doing Features chapter-length examples such as addictive goods, urban-property pricing, the consequences of prohibition, and the value of a statistical life Supported by video lectures taught by Kevin M. Murphy and Gary Becker The video course enables students to learn the theory at home and practice the applications in the classroom |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Economic Semantics Fritz Machlup, 2020-03-06 When the original edition was first published in 1963, Machlip observed ' I hope that the availibility of this collection will dispel semantic and concpetual; fog and allow greather visibility...'. The work is divided into five sections with a new essay in this edition on 'Are the Social Sciences Really Inferior?' There is also a new introduction by Mark Perlman, University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: In Pursuit of the PhD William G. Bowen, Neil L. Rudenstine, 2014-07-14 What percentage of graduate students entering PhD programs in the arts and sciences at leading universities actually complete their studies? How do completion rates vary by field of study, scale of graduate program, and type of financial support provided to students? Has the increasing reliance on Teaching Assistantships affected completion rates and time-to-degree? How successful have national fellowship programs been in encouraging students to finish their studies in reasonably short periods of time? What have been the effects of curricular developments and shifts in the state of the job market? How has the overall system of graduate education been affected by the expansion of the 1960s and the subsequent contraction in enrollments and degrees conferred? Is there excess capacity in the system at the present time? This major study seeks to answer fundamental questions of this kind. It is based on an exhaustive analysis of an unparalleled data set consisting of the experiences in graduate school of more than 35,000 students who entered programs in English, history, political science, economics, mathematics, and physics at ten leading universities between 1962 and 1986. In addition, new information has been obtained on the graduate student careers of more than 13,000 winners of prestigious national fellowships such as the Woodrow Wilson and the Danforth. It is the combination of these original data sets with other sources of national data that permits fresh insights into the processes and outcomes of graduate education. The authors conclude that opportunities to achieve significant improvements in the organization and functioning of graduate programs exist--especially in the humanities and related social sciences--and the final part of the book contains their policy recommendations. This will be the standard reference on graduate education for years to come, and it should be read and studied by everyone concerned with the future of graduate education in the United States. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: Humanomics Vernon L. Smith, Bart J. Wilson, 2019-01-24 Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life. Shows how to re-humanize the study of economics in the twenty-first century by integrating Adam Smith's two great books into contemporary empirical analysis. |
| deirdre mccloskey economical writing: How to Write Mathematics Norman Earl Steenrod, 1973-12-31 This classic guide contains four essays on writing mathematical books and papers at the research level and at the level of graduate texts. The authors are all well known for their writing skills, as well as their mathematical accomplishments. The first essay, by Steenrod, discusses writing books, either monographs or textbooks. He gives both general and specific advice, getting into such details as the need for a good introduction. The longest essay is by Halmos, and contains many of the pieces of his advice that are repeated even today: In order to say something well you must have something to say; write for someone; think about the alphabet. Halmos's advice is systematic and practical. Schiffer addresses the issue by examining four types of mathematical writing: research paper, monograph, survey, and textbook, and gives advice for each form of exposition. Dieudonne's contribution is mostly a commentary on the earlier essays, with clear statements of where he disagrees with his coauthors. The advice in this small book will be useful to mathematicians at all levels. |
The Rhetoric Of Economics Deirdre N Mccloskey Copy
that is to say human persuasion The book was McCloskey s opening move in the development of a humanomics and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life If You're So Smart Deirdre N. McCloskey,1990-09-07 In this witty accessible and revealing book Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and
Apologia Pro Vita Sua A History of My Economic Opinions
1 Apologia Pro Vita Sua: A History of My Economic Opinions Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1 For a special issue of Schmollers Jahrbuch: the Journal of Contextual Economics, 2021 By “apologia” for my life in economic and historical science I do not mean “I am sorry”— though, Lord knows, any life provides numberless opportunities for regret, and certainly
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Economical Writing Deirdre N. McCloskey,2000 The implied reader of my little book is a student of economics or of related fields who needs to write The book originated in a course for graduate economics students at the University of
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Economical Writing Deirdre N. McCloskey,2000 The implied reader of my little book is a student of economics or of related fields who needs to write The book originated in a course for graduate economics students at the University of
The Two Movements in Economic Thought, 1700-2000: Empty …
1 History of Economic Ideas 2018. 26 (1); 63-95. The Two Movements in Economic Thought, 1700-2000: Empty Economic Boxes Revisited Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1 My theme is of a Rise and a Fall of understanding, coming from a failure to measure
Measured, Unmeasured, Mismeasured, and Unjustified Pessimism…
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. 1. Thomas Piketty has written a big book , 577 pages of text, 76 pages of notes, 115 charts, tables, and graphs, that has excited the left, worldwide. “Just as we said!” the leftists cry. “The problem is Capitalism and its inevitable tendency to inequality!” First published in French in
Academic Writing 1 for Accounting, Economics & Psychology
Good writing style is very important. Good writing takes a lot of practice. Try to imitate papers you enjoyed to read (esp. by native speakers). Read a book about writing style... I e.g. Deirdre McCloskey’s “Economical Writing”, I or Steven Pinker’s “The thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century”.
A ‘Model’ Model: McCloskey and the Craft of Economics
In this essay, I highlight some of the contributions of Deirdre McCloskey to the practice of economics as a teacher and scholar. I highlight her influence ... (McCloskey, 1995), writing well (McCloskey, 1999a), focusing on “oomph” not statistical significance (McCloskey, 1999b), or trying to better explain important things about the world in
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The 10 Rules of Great Paper Writing - UCLA Economics
references, and the like. These are the cockroaches of writing. Eradicate them. Use a style manual or a journal as a guide. Consistency is important. If you want more (and I suspect you will), here are two books on economics writing: Economical Writing (2nd edition, Waveland Press) by Deirdre McCloskey (Economics, Rhetoric,
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Deirdre N. McCloskey Born "Donald" Sept 11, 1942, Ann Arbor, Michigan; married 1965-95; divorced; children: Daniel (b. 1969); ... Rockefeller Foundation, July 14-August 16, 1991: writing on English open field agriculture, 13th-18th centuries. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, England, May-June 1985 and 1986.
Rhetoric and Writing in Economics and Other Human Sciences
Deirdre N. McCloskey, The Rhetoric of Economics (Second edition, 1998), University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-10: 0299158144 Deirdre N. McCloskey, Economical Writing, with an Appendix by Stephen T. Ziliak, "Applying Economical Writing to Become Your Own Best Editor", Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
A Guide to Writing in Economics - Squarespace
process from the very start. I ask you to consider that writing is thinking. The economist Deirdre McCloskey, in her provocative short guide Economical Writing, explains the idea nicely. “Economically speaking,” she writes, “the production function for thinking cannot be written as the sum of two subfunctions, one
Deirdre N. McCloskey - UFS
Deirdre N. McCloskey Born "Donald" Sept 11, 1942, Ann Arbor, Michigan; married 1965-95; divorced; children: Daniel (b. 1969); ... Rockefeller Foundation, July 14-August 16, 1991: writing on English open field agriculture, 13th-18th centuries. Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of York, England, May-June 1985 and 1986.
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both as an analytical tool and as a welfare ideal. McCloskey achieved further renown by preaching the advantages of writing well and she has always practiced what she preached. Throughout her career, she has been one of the economics profession’s best stylists. In the 1980s, she revolted against the strictures of positivism in favor of a
Highlights for Spring 2019 - The University of Chicago Press
Economical Writing is itself economical: a collection of thirty-five pithy rules for making your writing clear, concise, and effective. Proceeding from big-picture ideas to concrete strategies for improvement at the level of the paragraph, sentence, or word, McCloskey shows us that good writing, after all, is not just a
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process from the very start. I ask you to consider that writing is thinking. The economist Deirdre McCloskey, in her provocative short guide Economical Writing, explains the idea nicely. “Economically speaking,” she writes, “the production function for thinking cannot be written as the sum of two subfunctions, one
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that is to say human persuasion The book was McCloskey s opening move in the development of a humanomics and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life Measurement and Meaning in Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey,2001 A collection of writings on economic history and the rhetoric of economics McCloskey
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The Rhetoric Of Economics Deirdre N Mccloskey: The Rhetoric of Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey,1998-05-15 A classic in its field this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul Economics needs to admit that it like other sciences works with
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The Rhetoric Of Economics Deirdre N Mccloskey: The Rhetoric of Economics Deirdre N. McCloskey,1998-05-15 A classic in its field this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul Economics needs to admit that it like other sciences works with
Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page
Deirdre N. McCloskey: Home Page
Succeeding in Academia – Writing Successful Academic Papers
•Economical Writing: 35 Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose •Deirdre McCloskey. Actively Write •Write and embrace mediocre or bad writing •Just write, you can improve upon a first draft, you can’t work on or improve something that doesn’t exist •Writing is rewriting
The “Conduit Metaphor” Revisited: a Reassessment of Metaphors …
JOE GRADY / 3 (5) John says he cannot find your idea anywhere in the passage. (6) I have to struggle to get any meaning at all out of the sentence. (7) You know very well that I gave you that idea. (8) Your real feelings are finally getting through to me. (9) The man’s thought is buried in these terribly dense and difficult paragraphs.
Rhetoric and Writing in Economics and Other Human Sciences
Stephen T. Ziliak is the author (together with Deirdre McCloskey) of the critically acclaimed book “The Cult of Statistical Significance” (University of Michigan Press, 2008) on the use and abuse of the concept ... Deirdre N. McCloskey, Economical Writing, Waveland Press, ISBN-10: 1577660633 In addition, students may want to consult the ...
Beyond behaviorism, positivism, and neo-institutionalism in …
with Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1 and Paolo Silvestri2* 1Universityof Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA and 2Department of Economics and Statistics, Universityof Turin, Torino, Italy *Corresponding author. Email: paolo.silvestri@unito.it (Received 11 April 2021; revised 17 April 2021; accepted 18 April 2021) Abstract
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THE NEW ECONOMIC CRITICISM - University of British Columbia
typology of writing economies because it captures, economically, the whole spectrum— from patronage (including various types of “self-patronage”), to writing for hire, to the economy that Lewes finally celebrates the origins of in the career of Samuel Johnson: the free-lance status that, for Lewes, is distinguished by self-determination.
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McCloskey, Deirdre N. Economical Writing, 2d edition, 2000. Waveland Press, Inc. Peterson, Rai. ... pages long and contains one important rule for writing. If we all wrote more like Deirdre and less like economists, economics would be a lot more interesting. You must read all of McCloskey for September 8.
DOI: 10.1177/0022009411403338 Turn in Historical Writing
6 Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir (Chicago 1999). 7 Martin Duberman, Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey (New York 1991); Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland (London 2006). This book is, in part, a biography of Anne
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ECONOMICAL WRITING DONALD McCLOSKEY’ Most people who write a lot, as do economists, have an amateurish atti- tude towards writing. Economists do not mind criticism of their facts or their formalisms, because they have been trained in these to take criticism, and to dish it out. Style in writing is another matter entirely. They regard
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The economist Deirdre McCloskey, in her often provocative short guide Economical Writing, explains the idea nicely. “Economically speaking,” she writes, “the production function for thinking cannot be written as the sum of two subfunctions, one producing ‘results’ and the other ‘writing them up.’ The function is not separable.
THE CHRONICLE REVIEW The Lives of Deirdre McCloskey
The Lives of Deirdre McCloskey Her gender change may be the least iconoclastic thing about her By Alexander C. Kafka MARCH 20, 2016 W ... Now it’s a reading and writing factory where McCloskey, who retired from teaching last year, pores through her 8,000-volume library for insights and evidence from economics, history, literature,
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On writing economics, Deirdre McCloskey, Economical Writing. Waveland Press, 1994. Software: You will be required to have access to Microsoft Excel, widely available on campus via the Open ... • Help for Writing: There are many resources available to assist you in …
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Responses to an Inquiry on S. N. S. Cheung’s Economics
focus on writing Chinese articles about China's economic developments, is also a reason that his powerful ideas haven't been taken up in modern microeconomics? We may solve that by publishing the English translation of Cheung's five-volume textbook. But, no, Cheung could not hold back the tricks of formalism in economics. The tricks had to be ...
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are not expert writers) are well advised to acquire for guidance in writing both essays and examinations in economics, as well as in economic history: ** Deirdre N. McCloskey, Economical Writing, 2nd edn. (Waveland Press, Illinois, ; formerly issued as The Writing of Economics (New York: MacMillan, 1987.) In just 63 pages. PE 1479 E35M33 1987.
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15 May 2015 · for a book I was writing. I want you to take away this afternoon a couple of expressions. Two only. There will be a short quiz afterwards, so pay attention. Take notes. The first is the word “transcendent.” Those who had a course in Denison’s superb Department of Philosophy will be familiar with it. It means “what we believe exists
Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of …
Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, 634 pages, University of Chicago Press, July 2006, ISBN 0226556638. $32.50 by Paul Oslington Associate Professor of Economics, University of NSW / ADFA, Canberra, Australia ... Deirdre though would have to be careful digging deeper
Institutions Matter, But Not as Much as Neo-institutionalists Believe
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey1 Reasonably good institutions, or substitutes for them coming from lively entry of better ones, or the personal liberty to devise good ones, are necessary for prosperity. That is to say, the lack of a certain amount of access to good ones makes for non-
Haiku economics: little teaching aids for big economic pluralists
main goal of writing haiku. Haiku clear a trail for enlightenment and stimulate open discussion. A wide variety of poets, from Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694) to Richard Wright (1908–1960), have practiced writing haiku simply to improve their own powers of observation. To date, haiku and economics have not been
A Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey* I think the history of How I Discovered Israel illuminates the trouble that Aus-trian economics has had against Samuelsonian economics (which we com-monly but self-defeatingly call the “mainstream”). And it shows how in the end the Austrians can save economics from itself.
What’s Still Right with the Austrian School of Economics:
statistical method, writing in the early 1940s against the fashion for Fisherian two-standard-deviation tests: “there has been a completely lopsided—almost a malignant— growth of sampling theory [that is to say, t tests without attending to substantive oomph]. . . . Caution, common sense and patience . . . are quite likely to keep [the
Review of Niall Ferguson - deirdremccloskey.com
Deirdre N. McCloskey Niall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book, this time in defense of traditional top-down principles of governing the wild market and the wilder international order. “The Square and the Tower” raises the question of just how much the unruly world should be governed—and by whom. Not everyone will agree, but
The Rhetoric of Economics Reconsidered - Simon Fraser University
McCloskey, Deirdre N. 2010. Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. An Argument Often Misunderstood In the 2 nd edition of Rhetoric of Economics ... Rhetoric: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing,
Writing Workshop - University of Illinois Chicago
./Figures/WMSU LOGO.png Writing Tips from Deirdre McCloskey 1 Never use a long word where a short one will do 2 If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out 3 Never use the passive where you can use the active 4 Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent Writing WorkshopSocial Insurance …
