From the anonymous and interesting blogger of Big Sky Ideas, 20 February 2012. Nor can communitarian or social values in isolation. We need a more realisitic conception of what the good life is. And McCloskey’s account of the seven virtues – going all the way back to medieval and classical tradition – is more convincing (more…)
Mr. Pethokoukis, columnist, scholar, and editor of The Enterprise Blog, is referring to books “that have most influenced me throughout my life; they’re the most beat-up looking ones, having been read and referred to countless times.” View original column in The Enterprise Blog, 8 May 2012.
See “Hot Summer Author” in USA Today, 23 May 2012
The following was posted by Boudreaux in Cafe Hayak, 24 May 2012: [N]ote that the concept of rationality that McCloskey here criticizes is that which is postulated by today’s typical neoclassical mainstream economist: Is it rational to expect people to be rational in a voting booth when they have already shown their irrationality by showing (more…)
From “Beyond ‘Anything That’s Peaceful’: Why Culture Matters,” Students for Liberty, 23 May 2012. The article quoted the following from Bourgeois Dignity: “I claim here that the modern world was made by a new, faithful dignity accorded to the bourgeois… and a new, hopeful liberty… And both were necessary. My libertarian friends want liberty alone (more…)
See Economic Fables, posted 4 June 2012.
Jonathan B. Wight, “More on Social Entrepreneurs,” Economics and Ethics, June 10, 2012.
Upwardly 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
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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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