September 4th, 2010
View entire column Excerpt: Despite recognizing the problems of an era when aristocrats and churches were responsible for most artistic expression, Deirdre McCloskey’s is one of the strongest voices today arguing that politically motivated governments should get out of subsidizing the arts. Why? McCloskey, who is famous for her feisty economic opinions, says the main (more…)
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September 7th, 2010
Read full article (27 August 2010) Excerpt from Boettke: As Deirdre McCloskey points out about the work, Emily shows that economy is not a machine, and that social order is embedded in culture and civil society. To do this, McCloskey says, and to do this well, you need an “empirical yet Austrian economics” and Emily’s (more…)
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September 7th, 2010
View entire article Excerpt: I’m reading some fascinating works on writing and rhetoric in preparation for various parts of my book. Most recently I’ve begun Deirdre McCloskey’s The Rhetoric of Economics (2nd edition, 1998, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press), a delightful rhetorical analysis of economic discourse in which she dissects the ways in which (more…)
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