[A profile on] “the economic historian who is bringing love, faith, courage and virtue back into her discipline.”
June 16th, 2012See “The New Theories of Moral Sentiments” Dalibor Rohac for the Wall Street Journal, 27 January 2012
“No one in recent times has offered a more multilayered and erudite depiction of the role of the middle classes in driving progress than the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey.”
June 16th, 2012Upwardly mobile? Class differences were obvious in Zola’s Paris. Photo: Hulton See “Serfs Up… . . . Why the middle class matters” Dan O’Brien for the Irish Times, 4 February 2012
“McCloskey is trying to move the economic conversation towards, well, human conversation. She argues that words and values are badly under appreciated by economic historians. Culture and attitudes … shape how individuals choose to live their lives.”
June 16th, 2012Seán Keyes “How Britain’s cultural revolution transformed the world” Seán Keyes for Money Week, 17 February 2012
The West’s “embrace of economic freedom and creative destruction, both legally and culturally — what economist Deirdre McCloskey calls the idea of bourgeois dignity and liberty — led to a rise in real income per head in 2010 prices from about $2-3 a day in 1800 worldwide to over $100 today.”
June 16th, 2012“Everything you need to know about the power of economic freedom in 3 charts“ By James Pethokoukis, The American, 18 February 2012
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