Comments on: Part IX. Commerce in Braudel and the Marxists http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/ Deirdre McCloskey Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:33:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Deirdre McCloskey http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 Deirdre McCloskey Mon, 10 May 2010 20:57:39 +0000 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/?p=915#comment-1667 Dears, I do intend the soothe the people you mention, but not to damage my beloved economics: a "humanomics," as Bart Smith calls it, would let in meaning, and economics would be as a result a better science. I hope I am not a "rogue"! I merely try to say what is true: trade is universal, Harberger triangles can't explain the modern world, language matters for the economy, statistical significance is mistake, existence theorems are a waste of scientific time. Regards, Deirdre Dears, I do intend the soothe the people you mention, but not to damage my beloved economics: a “humanomics,” as Bart Smith calls it, would let in meaning, and economics would be as a result a better science. I hope I am not a “rogue”! I merely try to say what is true: trade is universal, Harberger triangles can’t explain the modern world, language matters for the economy, statistical significance is mistake, existence theorems are a waste of scientific time. Regards, Deirdre

]]> By: Deirdre McCloskey Turns Economics Upside Down – Now in Stockholm « Why We Do It http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Deirdre McCloskey Turns Economics Upside Down – Now in Stockholm « Why We Do It Sun, 09 May 2010 10:19:16 +0000 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/?p=915#comment-1666 [...] Deirdre McCloskey Turns Economics Upside Down – Now in Stockholm. The rogue economist Deirdre McCloskey will be in Stockholm 18-19 May 2010. She has just published a new book that might be soothing to all the social contructivists, Marxists and non-economists out there: Why Economics can't explain the modern world. There is a Beta draft version of it on her web page; read it and weep all you rational choicers! Oh, and did I mention she is one of the world's leading economics historians? Here is the book [...] [...] Deirdre McCloskey Turns Economics Upside Down – Now in Stockholm. The rogue economist Deirdre McCloskey will be in Stockholm 18-19 May 2010. She has just published a new book that might be soothing to all the social contructivists, Marxists and non-economists out there: Why Economics can’t explain the modern world. There is a Beta draft version of it on her web page; read it and weep all you rational choicers! Oh, and did I mention she is one of the world’s leading economics historians? Here is the book [...]

]]> By: Journal staff http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/comment-page-1/#comment-1554 Journal staff Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:31:50 +0000 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/?p=915#comment-1554 <i>Corrections: The original <span class="normal">Prudentia</span> publication misspelled Albert Heijn and inadvertently referred to Amsterdam's Lindengracht market as the Noordermarkt. (Thanks to Prof. Futselaar for noting the errors).</i> Corrections: The original Prudentia publication misspelled Albert Heijn and inadvertently referred to Amsterdam’s Lindengracht market as the Noordermarkt. (Thanks to Prof. Futselaar for noting the errors).

]]> By: Deirdre McCloskey http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Deirdre McCloskey Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:05:56 +0000 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/?p=915#comment-1553 Beste Ralf, Thanks. I had in mind the ordinary one near it, along the filled-in gracht, not the one you're thinking of, close to kerk. I'll fix it, and Albert Heijn's spelling! Deirdre Beste Ralf,

Thanks. I had in mind the ordinary one near it, along the filled-in gracht, not the one you’re thinking of, close to kerk. I’ll fix it, and Albert Heijn’s spelling!

Deirdre

]]> By: Ralf http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/2009/09/21/ix-commerce-in-braudel-and-the-marxists/comment-page-1/#comment-1552 Ralf Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:16:57 +0000 http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/weblog/?p=915#comment-1552 I am nitpicking, but the Noordermarkt on saturdays is a rather exclusive biological food market offering not cheap, but rather expensive products to the health- and environment-conscious bourgeois of Amsterdam. Albert's surname, by the way, is spelled Heijn. I am nitpicking, but the Noordermarkt on saturdays is a rather exclusive biological food market offering not cheap, but rather expensive products to the health- and environment-conscious bourgeois of Amsterdam. Albert’s surname, by the way, is spelled Heijn.

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