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Peter Boettke references Deirdre in Emily Chamlee Wright’s The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery (Routledge, 2010).

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…)

Mathematics professor finds McCloskey’s Rhetoric of Economics helpful in preparing his own book.

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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