Praise for McCloskey’s Crossing
November 4th, 2008Dear Deirdre. Just finished your book Crossing. Bravo. Just had to say thank you for such a wonderful memoir.
Part III. Growth, Quality, Happiness, and the Poor
August 1st, 2009Real national income per head in Britain rose by a factor of about 16 from the 18th century to the present. Other cases, such as that of the U.S. or Korea, have been even more startling, historically speaking. Like the realization in astronomy during the 1920s that most of the “nebulae” detected by telescopes are in fact other galaxies unspeakably far from ours, the Great Fact of economic growth, discovered by historians and economists in the 1950s and elaborated since then, changes everything. [continues; click title bar above]
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2009: “Bourgeois Dignity”
September 22nd, 2009Tuesday, September 22: Washington:”Bourgeois Dignity,” at the Department of Economics, American University, 12:00-1:30, at Roper Hall 105,4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016 (202-885-1000; Tenleytown-AU Metrorail Station).
“I just discovered Deirdre N. McCloskey’s Economical Writing, and I’ve been smiling ever since.”
February 18th, 2010“It’s one of the finest writing books I’ve ever read, a fitting companion to Strunk & White’s Elements of Style and a handful of other beautifully written, easily read, and thoroughly entertaining books about writing.” … [continues; click post title above]
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