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Notes, photos, and conversations from McCloskey’s Italian tour

January 26th, 2012

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, edited by Tom Palmer, includes contributions by Deirdre McCloskey

January 26th, 2012

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.

Peter Boettke: “Deirdre McCloskey’s perhaps more than another other contemporary scholar is really trying hard to set the record straight.”

January 27th, 2012

Access complete article: “The Liberalism of Classical Liberalism” by PETER BOETTKE on JANUARY 26, 2012.

Lynn Kiesling: McCloskey “is doing more than any one person I know to return the perspectives of political economy and economics as transcending “Max U” to the professional and policy conversations.”

January 29th, 2012

View post, “A Friday Flash”, 27 January 2012 in Knowledge Problem.

A gracious post by Mark D. White

January 29th, 2012

View post, “Deirdre McCloskey featured in the Wall Street Journal‘s Cultural Conversation,” 27 January 2012 in Economics and Ethics.

A discussion of “what is widely known as ‘The McCloskey Critique’” at PoliticsWeb

March 13th, 2012

See full entry, “Wittenberg and Kerr: Adcorp’s final word” by Loane Sharp, 13 March 2012. “More learned academics than Wittenberg have tackled this problem seriously. In what is widely known as the “McCloskey Critique”, Chicago’s Prof Deirdre McCloskey argued that the goal of economics is to make interesting, new, and true statements about the real (more…)

“Bourgeois Virtues in Action” – Sarah Skwire talks about Deirdre’s “P” and “S” values.

March 21st, 2012

A readable post (Knowledge Problem, 5 March 2012) synthesizing bourgeois virtues, values of prudence and sociability, and industry examples.

Big Sky Ideas on “Romanticism and the Clerisy” from Deirdre’s Bourgeois Virtues

March 28th, 2012

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…)


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