Josh McCabe, responding to Nick Krafft’s Transition to Capitalism and Overdetermination, January 4, 2010. See full entry.

Written December 30, 2009: [Favorite] Books — tie between Chris Coyne’s After War, and Peter Leeson’s The Invisible Hook, with honorable mention going to Bill Easterly (both The Elusive Quest, and The White Man’s Burden) and Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues. Peter Boettke View entire entry

So says Michael Weiner, land development and zoning attorney credited with the redevelopment of Delray Beach. (The Palm Beach Post, “Virtues at Weiner and Associates law firm: Patience, confidence” by Alexandra Clough, 15 January 2010. View entire interview. Who is Michael Weiner?

Dear Reader: This is a rough draft (Jan. 2010) of The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848. Three asterisks *** or the bold or NNN (for a name) or DDDD (for a date) and the many pages with “items [perhaps] to be inserted” indicate only some of the numerous things to be done. I (more…)

Thanks to the initiative of Dr. Andy Denis (Director of Undergraduate Studies, Economics Department, City University London), The Economics Network of the UK’s Higher Education Academy offers publications and more, including a Heterodox Reading List, a selective collection of McCloskey’s course reading lists. Current and archived reading lists for Professor McCloskey’s courses remain stored in (more…)

So says a Finn on his blog at http://finglish.livejournal.com, 26 January 2010. The quote was excerpted from: Luckily there was also time [while a student] to read more interesting stuff. Deirdre McCloskey’s Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics is probably the most important academic book I ever read – here is an economist who discusses Aristotle, (more…)

Excerpted from Art Carden in “A New Addition to the Bookshelf” in Division of Labor, 25 January 2010 (original link). My copy of Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture just arrived … . I’m really looking forward to it; as I’ve come under the influence of Deirdre McCloskey in the last (more…)

Dear Reader: This is a rough draft (Jan. 2010) of The Bourgeois Revaluation: How Innovation Became Virtuous, 1600-1848. Three asterisks *** or the bold or NNN (for a name) or DDDD (for a date) and the many pages with “items [perhaps] to be inserted” indicate only some of the numerous things to be done. I (more…)