The virtue of prudence rose in prestige in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. By the middle of the eighteenth century British men — especially the men — delighted in claiming prudence for their own behavior and a cynical supposition that others were motivated similarly. Thus Adam Smith initiated the economist’s delight in the (more…)
Center for Business Law, Saltmätargatan 19 C Professor Deirdre McCloskey holds this year’s Heckscher lecture The lecture, given in memory of Eli F. Heckscher, will be on “Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World.” Bourgeois Dignity, McCloskey’s most recent book (to be published this fall by University of Chicago Press) is the second (more…)
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden
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