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Ziliak & McCloskey’s “The Cult of Statistical Significance” is the 2nd most downloaded article on the heavily-trafficked StatLit website

December 20th, 2010

— About The Cult of Statistical Significance — See summary paper, “The Cult of Statistical Significance” — StatLit website

How to Be Human* *Though an Economist redux

December 20th, 2010

Diane Coyle’s praise, 19 December 2010. Benjamin’s Christmas reading, 19 December 2010: I’ve been surfing through Deirdre McCloskey’s excellent website to find myself a bit of Christmas reading … and was thinking of picking up How to be Human: Though an Economist. [continues at New School Economic Review website].

Deirdre McCloskey is voted one of the “Greatest Economists of the Twentieth Century”

December 20th, 2010

Results of the Post-autistic Economics Review’s Greatest Twentieth-Century Economists Poll Subscribers to this journal were asked (January and February 2006): “Who were the greatest economists of the 20th century?” Note: “‘Greatest’ here means … who most added to our understanding of economic phenomena.”


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