16 April 2006 ORIGINAL SOURCE Gary Sauer-Thompson An interesting lecture by Deidre McCloskey — the 2006 James Buchanan one. It starts by mentioning the classical republican virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and prudence, which are the political virtues that contribute to the ancient sense of contributing to the survival and flourishing of a polis, a (more…)
20 April 2006 Economics and Ethics at GMU? Sandra Peart The event was a great success, in large measure thanks to a collaborative effort with the GMU Libraries. Their display of documents relating to Tullock and Buchanan’s Calculus was fascinating. Deirdre made the case for virtue ethics, an “economics that takes human flourishing seriously”, she (more…)
April 05, 2006 From the History of Economic Thought blog by Sandra Peart Sandra Peart I’ll be introducing Deirdre, trying to explain how her work intersects with Jim Buchanan’s. Two main ways, I’ll argue: first, her celebration of the market as the means by which we become moral; and, second, her emphasis on motivational homogeneity (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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