Steve Horwitz talks about bourgeois virtues in a consumer context. See “The Bourgeois Virtues and Consumer Ethics,” The Calling, published by the Foundation for Economic Education, 5 August 2011.

September 5-9, graduate seminar on modern economic growth, Department of Economic History, Gothenburg, Sweden, applications closed.

16 April 2006 ORIGINAL SOURCE Gary Sauer-Thompson An interesting lecture by Deidre McCloskey — the 2006 James Buchanan one. It starts by mentioning the classical republican virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and prudence, which are the political virtues that contribute to the ancient sense of contributing to the survival and flourishing of a polis, a (more…)

20 April 2006 Economics and Ethics at GMU? Sandra Peart The event was a great success, in large measure thanks to a collaborative effort with the GMU Libraries. Their display of documents relating to Tullock and Buchanan’s Calculus was fascinating. Deirdre made the case for virtue ethics, an “economics that takes human flourishing seriously”, she (more…)

April 05, 2006 From the History of Economic Thought blog by Sandra Peart Sandra Peart I’ll be introducing Deirdre, trying to explain how her work intersects with Jim Buchanan’s. Two main ways, I’ll argue: first, her celebration of the market as the means by which we become moral; and, second, her emphasis on motivational homogeneity (more…)

August 12, 2011 Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth: Robert Higgs, Deirdre McCloskey, Amity Shlaes, John Stossel, Don Boudreaux, Bryan Caplan, Bruce Bartlett, Jeffrey A. Miron, John Berlau, Allan Melzer, Ira Stoll, Walter Olson, Peter Schiff, Alex Tabarrok, Fred L. Smith & Lucy Steigerwald Go to complete article