India Says No to $80 Toilet Paper (August 2011) Gurcharan Das for the Wall Street Journal reports that “An anticorruption campaign has given voice to a growing middle class tired of public indignities,” referencing McCloskey’s Bourgeois Dignity. [T]he rise of India and China has brought dignity to their middle classes. Ordinary conversations over chai in (more…)

From Cafe Hayek “Quotation of the Day” by Don Boudreaux, November 11, 2011: “In a fallen world, the bourgeois life is not perfect. But it’s better than any available alternative.” Deirdre McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues (2006), p. 1.

Excerpt from a review of The Tree of Knowledge in lifestyle.Scotsman.com, “Bringing Adam and David up to date” by Mark Fisher (9 December 2011): During [Clifford's] research, one of the most interesting people she came across was Deirdre McCloskey, an American economics professor and fervent believer in the free market. The Tree of Knowledge reflects (more…)

An excerpt from “Teaching humans to be economists” (Diane Coyle in The Enlightened Economist, January 4, 2012): I’m winding down after a day’s lecture preparation by dipping into Deirdre McCloskey’s How to Be Human (Though an Economist), always enjoyable. The book fell open at her essay “Why Economics Should Not Be Taught In High School.” (more…)

Pictures from a Press Conference » Aldo Rustichini and the grand Salamanca lecture hall “Riflessioni su economia e materie umanistiche“(Reflections on economics and the humanities), Noise from Amerika, 11 October 2011. For our Italian readers, Andrea Moro writes about a vigorous discussion between Deirdre and Aldo Rustichini in Salamanca.

The Morality of Capitalism Notes on the release of The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You, edited by Tom Palmer. Includes contributions by Deirdre McCloskey.

Will Wilkinson, Big Think, January 30, 2012: “I’ve never felt secure in any of the main positions of the great debate over the root cause of modern growth, but I find myself inclined toward McCloskey’s case …” View entire post.

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