Excerted from The Economist‘s “Returns fit for King’s,” Jun 22, 2012: “IF YOU’RE so smart, why aren’t you rich? That question (which Deirdre McCloskey calls The American Question) exasperates most economists, who model markets better than they play them. One possible exception is John Maynard Keynes, who has always had a reputation as a star-performing (more…)
See “On pleasure, happiness, and that thing called ‘better off’,” Michael Miner for The Chicago Reader, 18 June 2012. In answer to “Are you happier than you were four years ago?” Miner says, “happiness cannot be measured and barely be pondered. “If you don’t know that already, you will once you’ve read Deirdre McCloskey’s long (more…)
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago;
and Professor of Economic History, Gothenburg University, Sweden
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