From Sarah Skwire’s “Economics and the Humanities: It’s Time to Cross the Disciplines” (The Conversation, 12 July 2012): I suggest … that we begin seriously to exploit gains from trade. In other words, let’s do some real interdisciplinary work. The co-authored kind. Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues and Bourgeois Dignity … suggest to me that there (more…)
In “Jealousy as a driver of innovation and growth! There’s some merit in this idea” (14 July 2012), Sanjeev Sabhlok says: I chanced upon a very provocative hypothesis by Deirdre McCloskey who suggests that the roots of modernisation can be traced to the Dutch revolt of 1568 against Spain. But more generally, it is the (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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