Dear Prof McCloskey, I read economics at Cambridge Univ. closing in on ten years ago and I am currently writing on my PhD in Evolutionary Economics. A part of which is related to gender issues in economic theory. While we were covering the UK Ind.Rev. as part of the Cambridge Tripos, I seem to recall (more…)
Dear Prof. McCloskey, Sorry for writing a rather tedious email but I am going nuts trying to find a chapter by you that I read about ten years ago. Possibly the chapter itself is much older than ten years. It begins with an extremely long duree look at the significance of the industrial revolution, placing (more…)
Abstract from Gustavo Morles’s (28 Feb. 2010 draft version of) “The Rhetoric of Economics: Why Words are Important”: By looking at historical evidence McCloskey concludes that the great transformation of the Industrial Revolution was made possible by the change in attitudes, reflected ultimately in the change in rhetoric, towards bourgeois values. This paper explores the (more…)
“Was the industrial revolution mainly about the growth of manufacturing industry?” Bates asks. See Freedom and Flourishing.
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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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