Submitted on 2007/05/31 at 3:14am Hi Deirdre: I feel very comfortable in the world of your books and ideas. A long time ago, I chose [to remember] “Replete of prices and profits, acres and land, economic science is the most measurable of all social sciences”. I thought it was in “Econometric History”, browsed in a (more…)
It had never happened before. In 1798 Robert Malthus (1766-1834), an Anglican clergyman irritated by the extravagant and anti-clerical claims of the French revolutionaries and their British friends that a new day had dawned, explained for the first time why the enrichment of the poor had not yet happened. He said in his great book (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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