Notes on McCloskey’s books
Some texts are ever-relevant, ever popular. Recent blog excerpts:
From Mark Liberman’s “Language Log” (UPenn) April 5, 2010:
For those who are interested in the sociology of economics (about which I obviously know very little), I recommend Deirdre McCloskey’s The Secret Sins of Economics. [View original entry.]
And from Liberman’s September 16, 2004 archives of the same column:
[T]here are a couple of gems among the first five titles [in Prickly Paradigm's new online resource of pamphelts].I was especially taken with Deirdre McCloskey’s The Secret Sins of Economics. It’s a great pamphlet, engaging and fun to read and (at least for an outsider) quite convincing. [View original entry.]
About another of McCloskey’s “gems,” Thomas Mandl writes in his “Constant Education” column (March 30, 2010):
Praise thy Web because She gives us Deirdre McCloskey, who has taken upon herself to teach some basic writing rules to theoretical minds and liberate humanity from illegible words. Her 15 rules of economic writing are a gift that every human being interested in clear prose should read. If you do not want to help yourself by spending 30 minutes on these rules, you can read a one-page summary. If you, however, want to go the whole nine yards you can read Professor McCloskey’s book, Economical Writing. [View original entry.]
