BOOKS WRITTEN and PUBLISHED

Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Brief essays by McCloskey over the past couple of decades drifting towards “liberalism” in the root sense, Adam Smith’s “liberal plan of equality, liberty, and justice.”

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World. Vol. 3 of the trilogy “The Bourgeois Era,” University of Chicago Press, 2016, 787 + xlii pp. Simplified [that is, Mainland] Chinese translation, China CITIC [中信] Press Corporation, 2017?]. Polish translation 2017. Audio-book 2017 on Amazon, Gildan Media. Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute, June 13, 2017, for the best book on Hayekian themes in the previous two years.

The book explores the reputational rise of the bourgeoisie, that is, a Bourgeois Revaluation overtaking Holland and then Britain from Shakespeare’s time to Adam Smith. It made the modern world, by giving a reason for ordinary people to innovate. The material changes—empire, trade—were shown in Bourgeois Dignity (2010) to be wholly inadequate to explain the explosion of incomes 1800 to the present. What pushed the world into frenetic innovation were the slowly changing ideas 1600–1848 about the urban middle class and about their material and institutional innovations. A class long scorned by barons and bishops, and regulated into stagnation by its very own guilds and city councils and state-sponsored monopolies, came to be treasured—at least by the standard of earlier, implacable scorn—from 1600 to the present, first in Holland and then in Britain and then the wider world. And when the Amsterdamers after 1600 or so, and the Londoners and Bostonians after 1700 or so, commenced innovating, more people commenced admiring them. The new valuation of the bourgeoisie, a new dignity and liberty for ordinary people was a change peculiar to northwestern Europe in how people applied to economic behavior the seven old words of virtue—prudence, justice, courage, temperance, faith, hope, and love. With more or less good grace the people around the North Sea began to accept the outcome of trade-tested betterment. Then people did so in Europe generally and its offshoots, and finally in our own day in China and India. Most came for the first time to regard creative destruction as just, and were courageous about responding to it, and hopeful in promoting it. Most people, with the exception of the angry clerisy of artists and intellectuals (and even them only after 1848), stopped hating the bourgeoisie as much as their ancestors had for so very long before. Many started loving it. In consequence during a century or two the northwest Europeans became shockingly richer in goods and in spirit. That is, not economics but “humanomics” explains our riches.

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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World. Vol. 2 of 3 of the trilogy "The Bourgeois Era," 2010, University of Chicago Press, 571 + xvi pp. Chinese translation by Lu Shen, March 2017. Russian translation Novoe Izdatelstvo forthcoming c. 2018. Polish translation by Marcin Zieliński (Wroclawiu: Instytut Misesa) 2018. Audio-book 2017 on Amazon, Gildan Media. Winner of Business and Economics category at the Sharjah International Book Fair, 2011. جائزة اتصالات لكتاب الطفل تشارك في معرض بوك إكسبو أميركا

What made us modern, and rich, was a change in ideology, or "rhetoric." First in little Holland and then in Britain a new dignity and liberty for the middle class freed innovation. A unique wave of gadgets, and then a tsunami, raised incomes from $3 a day to $30 a day ... more

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[co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives. University of Michigan Press, 2008. Chps. 14-16 revised appear as "The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Fisherian 'Tests' in Biology, and Especially in Medicine." Biological Theory 4(1) 2009: 1-10. Widely reviewed; basis of "Brief for Statistics Experts Professors Deirdre M. McCloskey and Stephen T. Ziliak in Support of Respondent" before the US Supreme Court, Matrixx v Siracusano, Nov 12, 2010, No. 09-1156, oral argument, Jan 10, 2011.

Existence, arbitrary statistical significance, philosophical possibilities uncalibrated to the sizes of important effects in the world are useless for science. Yet in medical science, in population biology, in much of sociology, political sciences, psychology, and economics, in parts of literary study . . . more

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The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Vol. 1 of 3 of the trilogy “The Bourgeois Era,”, University of Chicago Press, 2006, as a trade book, 616 + xviii pp. (reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2006; New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 30; Times Literary Supplement, November; New York Review of Books, Dec. 21). Honorable Mention in Finance and Economics, Professional & Scholarly Publishers Division of the Assn. of American Publishers, 2006. The volume 3 (Vol. 2 is Bourgeois Dignity mentioned above) is also under contract to the Press. Spanish translation Las virtudes burguesas (2015) by Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE, Fondo), Mexico City. Chinese translation licensed to Zhejiang University Press in 2013, still being translated in 2016, by Liang Zhou, expected publication 2017. Chapters 8 and 9 are reprinted with minor revisions as "Kärleken och bourgeoisie," pp. 113-154 in Niclas Berggren, ed., Mrknad och moral (Stockholm: Ratio Förlag, 2008) Russian translation, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, about 2018. Audio-book 2017 on Amazon, Gildan Media, narrated by Marguerite Gavin.

The story of "The Bourgeois Era" (the trilogy of which this is the first volume) is of the rise of a prudential rhetoric in the Netherlands and England in the 17th century, its triumph in the Scottish Enlightenment and American colonial thought in the 18th... more

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The Secret Sins of Economics. Prickly Paradigm Pamphlets (Marshall Sahlins, ed.). University of Chicago Press, 2002, 60 pp. Translated into Persian, 2006. Translated into Japanese, 2009? by Chikuma Shobo, Ltd.? French edition 2017, Geneva: Éditions Markus Haller. Portuguese edition Ubu Editora, Brazil, 2017. Available in English online in its entirety.

It's not its abstraction or its mathematics or its statistics or its conservative slant that are the sins of economics. The two real and mortal sins are: (1.) Use of mere existence theorems and (2.) use of mere "statistical significance" (t tests at the 5% level, for example) to draw ... more

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[Edited by Stephen T. Ziliak, with an introduction by him and a short Preface by McCloskey] Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey. Brighton: Elgar. Economists of the Twentieth Century Series. 2001.

Selection of the best articles and chapters by McCloskey down to 2001 on historical economics and the rhetoric of economics.

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How to Be Human*   *Though an Economist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Advice to young economists about maintaining morale and integrity—and getting the scientific task done while retaining one's common sense. See the proposed book of popular essays on the economy to accompany this volume: How to Be an Economist* *Though Human.

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Crossing: A Memoir. University of Chicago Press, 1999. Named December 1999 among the New York Times "Notable Books of 1999." Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, 1999. Excerpts reprinted in Reason magazine (December 1999) and in Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine (Jan 30, 2000). Excerpt ("Yes, Ma'am") reprinted in Lynn Bloom and Louise Smith, eds., Arlington Reader, 2nd ed., 2008. Excerpts published in J. Ames. ed., Sexual Metamorphosis (New York: Vintage 2005); and in Kessler, ed., Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader, 6th and subsequent eds. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson, 2006). Japanese translation, Bungie Shunju Ltd. 2001. Italian translation Transeuropa Libri. License for a Turkish translation, Eflatun Yayinevi publisher, issued February 2010.

An account of McCloskey's gender change, 1995-1997.

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The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie. University of Amsterdam Press and University of Michigan Press, 1997. Dutch translation, 1997, Harry van Dalen; Japanese translation, with new preface for Japanese readers by McCloskey, Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, Ltd., 2002, reprinted in second 5000 press run, 2009, with a new Preface, "A Liberal Economic Science in a Liberal Society" (1000-word essay). Italian translation, IBL Libri (Istituto Bruno Leoni), 2014.

Not its liberal slant or its calculative ambition, which are virtues, but existence theorems and statistical “significance” and an ambition for detailed social engineering are the characteristic vices of economists.

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Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 446 pp.

Knowledge is persuasion, that is, knowledge is rhetorical. McCloskey marshals (somewhat) technical epistemology to show that the positivist program in economics lacks foundations (if one cares, which one should not) and should be abandoned, in favor (she realized a decade and more later) of “humanomics,” an economic science walking on both feet. She answers directly many of the conventionally Methodological critics of The Rhetoric of Economics.

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If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise. University of Chicago Press, 1990. Spanish translation Si eres tan listo: La narrativa de los expertos en economía (Madrid: Alianza 1993); trans. Graciela Sylvestre and Victoriano Martin. Simplified Chinese translation 2016 or so, Guangxi University Press via Andrew Nurnberg Associates International. (Chapter 11 reprinted in Daniel Klein, ed., What Do Economists Contribute?, Macmillan Press 1998 and New York University Press 1999).

Human affairs are deeply unpredictable for one powerful reason: if they were not, fortunes could be made trivially easily. McCloskey here pursues the logic of rational expectations, modern finance, and Austrian economics into its wider cultural implications, showing that storytelling is fundamental to economics, but strictly limited by the principle of what she calls the American question, . . . more

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Econometric History. Macmillan U.K., 1987. For the British Economic History Society. Translated into Japanese 1992. (Image: Courtesy British Historical Society.)

The then-“new,” or “cliometric” history is here surveyed, explained, and defended.

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The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Over 50 reviews, as in New York Review of Books, Village Voice, and numerous scholarly journals. British edition: Wheatsheaf 1986. Italian translation: La Retorica dell' Economia: Scienza e letturatura nel discorso economico, with an introduction by Augusto Graziani (Torino: Giulio Einaudi, 1988; trans. Bianca Maria Testa; series Nuovo Politecnico no. 165); Spanish (Alianza, 1990); Japanese (Harvest Sha 1992). Second Revised Edition, 1998. Russian translation, 2015. Chinese translation in progress, Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., LTD.

Economists are poets/But don't know it. Economic modeling uses metaphors, not as mere ornaments or elucidations but as the very meat of the science (just as in physics or history). In her famous book McCloskey illustrates the point with trenchant wit.

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The Writing of Economics. NY: Macmillan, 1986. A 90-page libellus from the article "Economical Writing" below. Second Revised Edition as Economical Writing, Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press, 1999. Translated into Chinese, China Renmin University Press, 2015. [Third revised edition forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, 2018.]

"Be clear." But how exactly? McCloskey, in a widely used textbook concerning writing in the social sciences, reveals with wit and brevity the secrets of the trade.

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The Applied Theory of Price. Macmillan, 1982; second revised edition, 1985. Available online in its entirety. International student edition 1985; Spanish trans. Teoria de Precios Aplicada (Mexico: CECSA: Compania Editorial Continental, S. A.), 1990. Czech trans. Aplikovaná Teorie Ceny (Praha: Státni pedagogické, 1993). Chinese translation forthcoming 2017 from Guangxi Normal University Press Group Co., LTD. {A new edition from the University of Chicago Press giving economics since 1985 and “humanomics” their due is contemplated, to be finished late 2018, published if so in 2019.}

Still regarded as one of the classic microeconomic texts of the Chicago School (with books by Friedman [pêre et fils], Stigler, Becker, Barzel, and Landsburg), it proved to be "too difficult" for undergraduate use, but has been used freely since then to set problems for courses that try actually to teach the art of economic thinking and to prepare ...more.

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Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics. Allen and Unwin, 1981; reprinted 1993 by Gregg Revivals (Godstone, Surrey, England); reprinted again 2003 by Routledge (Oxford).

The methods of international and industrial economics are here applied to the British case, the first work of its kind. A pioneering study.

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Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913. Harvard Economic Studies. Harvard University Press, 1973. (David A. Wells Prize 1970.)

The first book in the bringing of "cliometrics" to Britain, and among the first to use the Solow residual (and the price dual) for an industry study, it shows that British businessmen in the iron and steel industry did not "fail" in the late nineteenth century. On the contrary, they continued to lead the world.

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BOOKS EDITED
2 sole editor; 7 co-edited
(in chronological order)

Economic History

Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain after 1840. Methuen, 1971; and Princeton University Press, 1971. Reprinted Routledge, 2006. Order info

[with George Hersh, Jr.] A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Order info

[with Roderick Floud] The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present. 2 vols. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Order info

[with Roderick Floud] The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present. Second revised edition (3 vols.). Cambridge University Press, 1994. Order info | Reviews | Related

Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History Oxford University Press, 1992. Order info

Rhetoric of Inquiry and Economic Method

[with John Nelson and Allan Megill] The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences: Language and Argument in Scholarship and Public Affairs. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. Translated into Korean by Korean University Press, 2003, Seoul; Italian edition, Lavoro, Societa Editrice Il Lavoro, 1998; Chinese chapters, adapted and translated by Po-Keung Hui as a special issue of Cultural and Social Studies, Volume 2, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1997. Order info

[with Arjo Klamer and Robert Solow] The Consequences of Economic Rhetoric. Cambridge University Press, 1988. Order info

[with E. Bonet, B. Czarniawska, and H. S. Jensen] Second Conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research: Management and Persuasion. Barcelona: ESADE, 2011.

[with George F. DeMartino, who did the great bulk of the work] The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2016. [See also, with George F. DeMartino, “Professional Ethics 101: A Reply to Anne Krueger’s Review of ‘The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics’” {concerning her review in the Journal of Economic Literature}, Econ Journal Watch, January 2018.] Order info

(1.) British Enterprise in the 19th Century

1. "Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1870-1939," Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (May 1968): 281-96.
   • "The British Iron and Steel Industry," summary of dissertation, Journal of Economic History 29 (Mar 1969): 173-75.
   • Review of Birch's British Iron and Steel, Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14.
2. Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History Review 23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.
   Reprinted 2010 in Lars Magnusson, ed. Twentieth-Century Economic History: Critical Concepts in Economics (Oxford: Routledge).
• "Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder [to Derek Aldcroft]," Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77.
• "No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft [to his Comment on 'Did Victorian Britain Fail'?]" Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41.
• "A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It," pp. 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981 [1993].
• "Discussion" (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118.
3. "International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I," in McCloskey, ed., Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), Chapter 8, pp. 285-304.
   • "An Exchange with David Landes," pp. 305-309, in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971).
4. [co-authored with L. G. Sandberg] "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur," Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1971): 89-108.
   • Review of Sandberg's Lancashire in Decline, Journal of Political Economy 84 (Feb 1976): 198-200.
   • Review of Hannah's The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience, American Historical Review 82 (Dec, 1977): 1258-59.
   • Review of Matthews, Feinstein, and Odling-Smee's British Economic Growth 1855-1973, Times Literary Supplement 462 (May 6, 1983): .
   • Review of Kennedy's Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline, Economic History Review 42 (Feb 1989): 141-143.
   • "Is America in Decline?" Des Moines Register, Sept 1990. A revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3. Trans. and distributed by United States Information Service in Bangladesh.
   • Review of Thurow's The Zero-Sum Solution, Des Moines Register, Jan 9, 1986.
   • "Competitiveness and the Anti-Economics of Decline," pp. 167-173 in McCloskey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford 1992).

(2.) British Foreign Trade in the 18th and 19th Centuries

1. "Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate," Explorations in Economic History 8 (Winter 1970-71): 141-52.
2. "Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881," Explorations in Economic History 17 (July, 1980): 303-320; reprinted Forrest Capie, ed. Protectionism in the World Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1992).
   • "Reply to Peter Cain," Explorations in Economic History 19 (Apr 1982): 208-210.
3. "From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgments on Trade as an Engine of British Growth." Pp. 139-154 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain (1981) (1993).
4. [co-authored with R. P. Thomas] "Overseas Trade and Empire, 1700-1820," Chapter 4 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 87-102.
5. [co-authored with C. K. Harley] "Foreign Trade: Competition and the Expanding International Economy, 1820-1914," Chapter 17 in Floud and McCloskey, The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 2, pp. 50-69; reworked in the second edition; Harley used it in the third edition by Floud and Johnson, eds.

(3.) The History of International Finance

• Review of Ramsey's The Price Revolution in 16th Century England, Journal of Political Economy 80 (Nov/Dec, 1972): 1332-35.
1. [co-authored with Joseph Richard Zecher] "How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913," in J. A. Frenkel and H. G. Johnson, eds., The Monetary Approach to the Balance of Payments (Allen and Unwin, 1976), pp. 357-385; reprinted as pp. 63-80 in B. Eichengreen, ed., The Gold Standard in Theory and History (Methuen, 1985).
2. [co-authored with Joseph Richard Zecher] "The Success of Purchasing Power Parity: Historical Evidence and Its Implications for Macroeconomics," in Michael Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz, eds., A Retrospective on the Classical Gold Standard 1821-1931 (NBER, University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 121-150.
   • "Mars Collides with Earth," review of Volcker and Gyohten's Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership, Reason 24 (10, Mar 1993): 60-62.
3. {"The Extent of the Market: Market Integration in World History." For Lerici Conference on the Market in History, Apr 1993, unpublished.}
   • "The Gulliver Effect," Scientific American (Sept 1995): 44. Used as a text in the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT).
   • Review of Gray's False Dawn and Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 9(1), Winter 2000.
   • "On the Money Trail," review of Niall Ferguson's The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World 1700-2000, The American Scholar, Spring 2001.
   • Brief preface, "Globalization and the Money Market," for an edited volume of the Athenian Policy Forum Conference (N. Lash, ed.), 2001.

(4.) Open Fields and Enclosure in England

1. "The Enclosure of Open Fields: Preface to a Study of Its Impact on the Efficiency of English Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century," Journal of Economic History 32 (1, Mar 1972): 15-35.
   • Review of Williams's Draining of the Somerset Levels, Journal of Economic History 32 (4, Dec 1972): 1021-23.
2. "The Persistence of English Common Fields," in Eric L. Jones and William Parker (eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets: Essays in Agrarian Economic History (Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 73-119.
3. "The Economics of Enclosure: A Market Analysis," in Jones and Parker, as cited, pp. 123-160.
4. "English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk," Research in Economic History 1 (Fall 1976): 124-170.
   • "Fenoaltea on Open Fields: A Comment," Explorations in Economic History 14 (Oct 1977): 402-404.
   • "A Reply to Professor Charles Wilson," Journal of European Economic History 8 (Spring 1979): 203-207.
   • "Another Way of Observing Open Fields: A Reply to A. R. H. Baker," Journal of Historical Geography 5 (Oct 1979): 427, 427-29.
   • "Scattering in Open Fields: A Comment on Michael Mazur's Article," Journal of European Economic History 9 (Spring, 1980): 209-214.
   • Review of Popkin's The Rational Peasant and Macfarlane's The Origins of English Individualism, Journal of Political Economy, 89 (August 1981): 837-40. Reprinted in UCLA Writing Program and in Ellen Strenski, ed., Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989).
   • "Comment on Petras and Havens's 'Peasant Behavior and Social Change—Cooperatives and Individual Holdings.'" Pp. 226-231 in Clifford S. Russell and N.K. Nicholson, eds., Public Choice and Rural Development, Washington, D.C., 1981.
5. "Theses on Enclosure," pp. 56-72 in Papers Presented to the Economic History Society Conference at Canterbury, 1983. Agricultural History Society.
6. [co-authored with John Nash] "Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England," American Economic Review 74 (Mar 1984): 174-187.
   • "Conditional Economic History: A Reply to Komlos and Landes," Economic History Review 44 (1, Feb 1991): 128-132.
   • Review of Turner's English Enclosures, Journal of Economic History 1982.
   • "Open Field System," brief entry in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan UK, 1987).
7. "The Open Fields of England: Rent, Risk, and the Rate of Interest, 1300-1815," in David W. Galenson, ed., Markets in History: Economic Studies of the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 5-51.
8. "The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on Open Fields." Journal of Economic History 51 (2, June 1991): 343-355.
9. {"Allen's Enclosure and the Yeoman: The View from Tory Fundamentalism." Unpublished.}
10. {{Other draft chapters in a long unfinished book on the subject, begun in the 1970s, and to be finished perhaps in 2018 or so}}

(5.) The Industrial Revolution and the Great Enrichment

• Review of Hohenberg's Economic History of Europe, Kyklos (Nov 1971): 147.
• Review of Hawke's Railways and Economic Growth in England and Wales, 1840-1870, Economic History Review 24 (Aug 1971): 493-95.
• Review of Hughes's Industrialization and Economic History: Theses and Conjectures, Journal of Modern History 44 (Mar 1972): 97-8.
• Review of Davis, Easterlin, Parker et al., American Economic Growth: An Economist's History of the United States, Journal of Economic History 32 (Dec 1972): 963-66.
• Review of Williamson's Late Nineteenth-Century American Development, Times Literary Supplement (Dec 12, 1975).
• Review of David's Technology and Nineteenth-Century Growth, Economic History Review 29 (May 1976): 340-42.
• Review of Reed's Investment in Railways in Britain, American Historical Review 82 (Feb 1977): 102.
• Review of Coleman's The Economy of England, 1450-1750, Journal of Economic Literature 16 (Mar 1978): 108-110.
1. "The Industrial Revolution, 1780-1860: A Survey," Chapter 6 in Floud and McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present (1981), Vol. 1, pp. 103-127, reprinted in J. Mokyr, ed., Economic History and the Industrial Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 1985).
   • Review of Rosenberg and Birdzell's How the West Grew Rich, New York Times Sunday Book Review, Feb 1986.
   • "Beyond the Margin," review of Joel Mokyr's The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress, Reason 22 (10, Mar 1991): 56-57.
   • Review of Robert Reich's The Work of Nations, Chicago Tribune Book World, Mar 10, 1991, p. 3.
2. "The Industrial Revolution: A Survey," a new essay, in Floud and McCloskey, eds., The Economic History of Britain, 1700-Present, 2nd ed., 1994.
   • "Once Upon a Time There Was a Theory," Scientific American (Feb 1995): 25.
   • "Squashing the Politically Correct in History," review of David Landes's Wealth and Poverty of Nations), Reason, June 1998.
3. "1066 and a Wave of Gadgets: The Achievements of British Growth," in Penelope Gouk, ed., Wellsprings of Achievement: Cultural and Economic Dynamics in Early Modern England and Japan (Variorum, 1995).
   • "Industrial Revolution," 2000-word essay in Ronald Hamowy, ed., Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2008; 2017 in electronic form at Cato's Libertarianism.org.
   • "'You Know, Ernest, the Rich Are Different from You and Me': A Comment on Clark's A Farewell to Alms," European Review of Economic History 12 (2008): 138-148.
   • "Comments on Clark's Farewell to Alms," Social Science History Association, November 2007, Newsletter of the Cliometrics Society, 2008.
4. "The Prehistory of American Thrift." Pp. 61-87 in Joshua J. Yates and James Davidson Hunter, eds., Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
5. "Thrift as a Virtue, Historically Criticized." Revue de Philosophie Economique, December 2007.
   • "Review of Joel Mokyr's The Enlightened Economy." History Today, May 2010.
6. "Tunzelmann, Schumpeter, and the Hockey Stick." Research Policy 42 (March 2013): 1706-1715. (With material from Bourgeois Equality.)
7. "Why Economics Cannot Explain the Modern World." Economic Record 89 (June 2013; Supplement S1): 8-22. (With material from Bourgeois Dignity.)
   • Review of Ian Morris, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve. Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2015.
   • “Why the West (and the Rest) Got Rich,” 2,000 words, Wall Street Journal, cover story, Weekend Journal, May 21, 2016.
   • “Business Is as Ethical as It Has Ever Been,” 1000 words, Financial Times, 16 June, 2016.
   • Review of Joel Mokyr, A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy (2016), September 15, 2016, Prospect magazine. London.
   • Interview on economic growth in Magyar Narancs, a weekly magazine in Budapest. Translated into Hungarian, “Kedvesem, a GDP ōrōkre velűnk marad.” September 2016.
   • “The Formula for a Richer World? Equality, Liberty, Justice.” New York Times, Sept 2, 2016, Economic View, Business section. Reprinted, Gartman Letter, Sept 6, 2016.
   • Review of Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower. Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2018.

(6.) Other Historical Subjects

1. "New Perspectives on the Old Poor Law," Explorations in Economic History 10 (Summer 1973): 419-436.
   • "Review of Wrigley's (ed.) Nineteenth Century Society and Singer's and Small's The Wages of War, 1816-1965," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Mar 1974.
   • "A Mismeasurement of the Incidence of Taxation in Britain and France, 1715-1810," Journal of European Economic History 7(1) (Spring 1978): 209-10.
   • "Comment on Hartwell's 'Taxation During the Industrial Revolution'," Cato Journal 1(1) (Spring 1981): 155-159.
   • "Little Things Matter," review of Robert W. Fogel's Without Consent or Contract, Reason 22(2) (June 1990): 51-53.
2. "Women's Work in the Market, 1900-2000" (aka "Paid Work"), in Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ed., Women in Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social and Cultural Change. London: Longman/Pearson Education, 2001 [also in Feminist Economics, below]
   • Review of Anne Goldgar's Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, Business History Review 82 (Special issue 4, 2008): 891-894.
   • "Keukentafel Economics and the History of British Imperialism," South African Economic History Review 21 (Sept 2006): 171-176.
   • “Blockchains Are Not Historically Unique.” Interview for Serious Science website. August 2017.
3. "Measured, Unmeasured, Mismeasured, and Unjustified Pessimism: A Review Essay of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century." Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Autumn 2014. Translated into: Spanish by Luis Mireles Flores for Estudios (journal of the faculty of Humanities at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), 2016?; Romanian April 2015 for the Free Market Road Show; Russian December 2015 for vol 71 of Comparative Studies; Chinese, Journal of Comparative Studies, Dec., 2015; Swedish by Timbro, Stockholm, 2016.
• Abbreviated version in Cato Policy Report, summer 2015.
• "Niecni intelektualiści i cnotliwa burżuazja" (interview on Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in Polish). Wprost, August 2015. Also available in English.
• "What's Wrong in Piketty" (interview). In EA, a magazine for secondary schools from the Institute for Economic Affairs, London, fall 2015.
• “The Duel: Is Inequality the Root of All Social Ills?” Debate with Zoe Williams. Prospect blog, August 2017.

(7.) Teaching Economics

• "Review of 9th Edition of Samuelson's Economics," Challenge 16 (Sept/Oct 1973): 65-66.
1. [with John Siegfried, Robin Bartlett, W. Lee Hansen, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Status and Prospects of the Economics Major," Journal of Economic Education 22(3) (Summer 1991): 197-224.
2. [with John Siegfried, W. Lee Hansen, Robin Bartlett, Allen Kelley, and Thomas Tietenberg] "The Economics Major: Can and Should We Do Better than a B−?" American Economic Review 81(2) (May 1991): 20-25. Reprinted Revista Asturiana de Economia 2008.
   • "Why Economics Is Tough for Ten-Year-Olds," Social Studies Review (American Textbook Council) 10 (Fall 1991): 8-11.
   • "The Natural," Eastern Economic Review 18(2) (Spring 1992): 237-239. Also in Eastern Economic Journal columns below.
   • "Contribution to Special Book Section on books to recommend to undergraduate economics Students," Reason 26(7) (Dec 1994): 42.
   • "Yes, There is Something Worth Keeping in Microeconomics." 2002. Post-Autistic Economics Review no. 16, 4 Sept. Reprinted in a German translation, "Ja, es gibt etwas Behaltenswertes an der Mikroökonomik," in T. Dürmeier, T. v. Egan-Krieger, H. Peukert, eds., Die Scheuklappen der Wirtschaftswissenschaft: Postautistische Ökonomik für eine pluralistische Wirtschaftslehre (October 2006).
   • [with Arjo Klamer and Stephen T. Ziliak] "Is There Life after Samuelson's Economics? Changing the Textbooks." Post-Autistic Economics Review 42, 18 May 2007: 2-7.
   • [with Helen Roberts] "What Economics Should We Teach Before College, If Any?" Journal of Economic Education summer, 2012.
3. {"Gladly Would He Learn and Gladly Teach: Friedman as a Teacher of the Good Old Chicago School." Liberty Fund conference, Chicago, March 2015, and a conference volume, as yet I believe unpublished.}

(8.) Writing in Economics

1. "Economical Writing," Economic Inquiry 24(2) (Apr 1985): 187-222 [reprinted in UCLA Writing Program {Ellen Strenski, ed.}, Cross-Disciplinary Conversations about Writing (NY: St. Martin's Press, 1989)]; reprinted with revisions as The Writing of Economics (in second ed., Economical Writing, 1999; third edition University of Chicago Press forthcoming, 2018)).
   • "Reply to Jack High", Economic Inquiry 25(3) (July 1987): 547-548.
   • "Writing as a Responsibility of Science: A Reply to Laband and Taylor," Economic Inquiry 30 (Oct 1992): 689-695.

(9.) Criticism in History and Economic History [top^]

1. "The New Economic History: An Introduction," Revista Storica Italiana (Mar, 1971: 5-22; translated in Italian); and Revista Espanola de Economia (May-Aug 1971; translated in Spanish).
   • "Introduction" to special issue of Explorations in Economic History 11 (Summer, 1974): 317-24.
   • "The New Economic History in Britain" (in Italian), Quaderni Storici 31 (Dec 1976): 401-08.
2. "Does the Past Have Useful Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 14 (June 1976): 434-61. Translated into Russian for Thesis 1(1) (Spring 1993): 107-36. Reprinted in Diana Betts and Robert Whaples, eds. Readings in American Economic History, 1994. To be translated into Korean, 2016.
3. "The Achievements of the Cliometric School," Journal of Economic History 38(1) (Mar 1978): 13-28.
4. "The Problem of Audience in Historical Economics: Rhetorical Thoughts on a Text by Robert Fogel," History and Theory 24(1) (1985): 1-22. Reprinted in Tidskrift för Skandinavisk Retorikforskning 53 (2010): 12-35.
   • Review of Boland's The Foundations of Economic Method, Journal of Economic Literature 23 (June 1985): 618-19.
5. [co-authored with Allan Megill] "The Rhetoric of History," pp. 221-238 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
   • "Counterfactuals," article in Eatwell, Milgate, and Newman, eds. The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
   • "Continuity in Economic History," article in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987), pp. 623-626.
6. "The Storied Character of Economics," Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 101(4) (1988): 543-654.
   • "Reply to Professor Klein," Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 102 (1989): 66-67.
7. "History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration," History and Theory 30(1) (1991): 21-36.
8. "Ancients and Moderns" [presidential address, Social Science History Association, Washington, D.C., 1989]. Social Science History 14(3) (Jan 1991): 289-303.
   • "Introduction" to McCloskey and Hersh, eds. A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. ix-xii.
9. "Kinks, Tools, Spurts, and Substitutes: Gerschenkron's Rhetoric of Relative Backwardness," Chapter 6 in Richard Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, eds. Patterns of European Industrialization: The Nineteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1991).
   • "Looking Forward into History." Introduction (pp. 3-10) to McCloskey, ed., Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford, 1992).
10. "The Economics of Choice: Neoclassical Supply and Demand," in Thomas Rawski, ed., Economics and the Historian (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995): 122-158.
11. [co-authored with Santhi Hejeebu] "The Reproving of Karl Polanyi," Critical Review 13 (Summer 1999): 285-314.
    • [co-authored with Santhi Hejeebu] "Polanyi and the History of Capitalism: Rejoinder to Blyth," Critical Review 16(1) (2004): 135-142.
    • Review of Floud and Johnson's The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, Times Higher Education Supplement 15 (January 2004).
    • "One More Step: An Amiable Reply to Whaples," Historically Speaking 11 (2 April 2010): 22-23.
12. "A Kirznerian Economic History of the Modern World," in Emily Chamlee-Wright, ed., Annual Proceedings of the Wealth and Well-Being of Nations 3 (2010-2011): 45-64.
    • "The Poverty of Boldizzoni: Resurrecting the German Historical School," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research 9(1) (February 2013): 2-6.
    • "The Captivating Fogel." 300-word Letter, Intellectual Capital (Chicago Booth School of Business publication), fall, 2013.

(10.) Rhetorical Criticism in Economics [top^]

1. "The Rhetoric of Economics," Journal of Economic Literature 31 (June 1983): 482-517. Reprinted in: B. J. Caldwell, ed., Appraisal and Criticism in Economics (Allen and Unwin, 1985); Daniel Hausman, ed., The Philosopy of Economics, Readings, 1^st and 2^nd eds. [reprint of] "The Rhetoric of This Economics," Chp. 4, pp. 38-52 in McCloskey, Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (1994), for Daniel Hausman, ed. The Philosophy of Economics, Readings, 3^rd ed., 2007; and in P. Atkinson and S. Delamont, eds,. Representing Ethnography, London: SAGE Publications, 2008. Translated into Japanese, Contemporary Economics 61 (Spring 1985), pp. 156-184. Translated into French by F. Regard, as pp. 63-126 in Ludovic Frobert, "Si vous êtes si malins. . ." McCloskey et la rhétorique des economists, Lyon: ENS Éditions 2004 for École normale supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines. Translated into Hungarian for the journal Replika, apparently late 2006. Translated into Russian, "Istoki" ("Headwaters"), Higher School of Economics, 2009. Translated again into Russian, "Ritorika ekonomicheskoy teorii" // Avtonomov V. , Ananyin O., Boldyrev I., Vasina L., Makasheva N. (eds.) ISTOKI: sociokulturnaya sreda ekonomicheskoy deyatelnosti i ekonomicheskogo poznaniya. Moscow: Higher School of Economics Press, 2011, pp. 252-320.
   • "Reply to Caldwell and Coats," Journal of Economic Literature 22 (June 1984): 579-80.
   • "Sartorial Epistemology in Tatters: A Reply to Martin Hollis," Economics and Philosophy 1 (Apr 1985): 134-137.
2. "The Character of Argument in Modern Economics: How Muth Persuades," in Proceedings of the Third Summer Conference on Argumentation, sponsored by the Speech Communication Association and the American Forensic Association, Annandale, Va., Fall 1983, revised for The Rhetoric of Economics.
3. "The Literary Character of Economics," Daedalus 113 (3, Summer 1984): 97-119. Three pages reprinted as pp. 20-22 in Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen, Social Construction: A Reader (London and Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2003).
   • "A Conversation with McCloskey About Rhetoric" Eastern Economic Journal (Oct-Dec 1985): 293-296.
   • "The Rhetoric of Economics," Social Science 71 (2/3, Fall 1986): 97-102 (prepared by Frank Moore from a talk at the Institute in Social Science, University of North Carolina, Jan 1986).
   • "Economics as a Historical Science," pp. 63-69 in William Parker, ed. Economic History and the Modern Economist (NY: Basil Blackwell, 1986; Italian translation, 1988, Liters Editore).
   • "Rhetoric," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
   • "The Rhetoric of Economic Development: Rethinking Development Economics," Cato Journal 7 (Spring/Summer 1987): 249-54; reprinted with minor revisions in James Dorn and A. A. Walters, eds. The Revolution in Development Economics, 1993.
4. "Towards a Rhetoric of Economics," pp. 13-29 in G. C. Winston and R. F. Teichgraeber III, eds., The Boundaries of Economics, Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
5. "Thick and Thin Methodologies in the History of Economic Thought," pp. 245-257 in Neil de Mari, ed., The Popperian Legacy in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
6. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "Economics in the Human Conversation," pp. 3-20 in Klamer, McCloskey, and Solow, eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
7. "The Consequences of Rhetoric," pp. 280-294 in Klamer, et al. eds., The Consequences of Rhetoric, Cambridge University Press, 1988 [reprinted in Fundamenta Scientiae 9 (2/3, 1988): 269-284 (a Brazilian journal)].
8. "Their Blackboard, Right or Wrong: A Comment on Contested Exchange." Politics and Society 18 (2, June 1990): 223-232.
9. "Storytelling in Economics," pp. 5-22 in Christopher Nash and Martin Warner, eds., Narrative in Culture (Routledge 1990); and pp. 61-75 in Don C. Lavoie, ed. Economics and Hermeneutics (Routledge 1990). An earlier version, with discussion, appeared in Orace Johnson, ed. Methodology and Accounting Research: Does the Past Have a Future (Proceedings of the 8th Annual Big Ten Accounting Doctoral Consortium, May, 1987: 69-76). Reprinted as "Telling Stories Economically," The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series: Economic Education 22: 83-107.
10. "Formalism in Economics, Rhetorically Speaking," Ricerche Economiche 43 (1989), 1-2 (Jan-June): 57-75. Reprinted with minor revisions in American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring, 1990): 3-19.
    • "Reply to Peter Mueser," American Sociologist 21 (1, Spring 1990): 26-28.
11. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "The Rhetoric of Disagreement," Rethinking Marxism 2 (Fall 1989): 140-161. Reprinted in D. H. Prychitko, ed. Why Economists Disagree, Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.
12. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "Accounting as the Master Metaphor of Economics," European Accounting Review 1 (1, May, 1992): 145-160.
13. "Agon and Ag Ec: Styles of Persuasion in Agricultural Economics," American Journal of Agricultural Economics 72 (Dec 1990): 1124-1130.
14. "The Rhetoric of Economic Expertise," pp. 137-147 in Richard H. Roberts and J. M. M. Good, eds., The Recovery of Rhetoric: Persuasive Discourse and Disciplinarity in the Human Sciences. 1993. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993. Translated into French as "La rhétorique de l'expertise économique" in Vincent de Coorebyter, ed., Rhétorique de la Science. Paris: Presse Universitaires de France, in the series "L'interrogation philosophique," M. Meyer, ed., pp 171-188.
15. "Mere Style in Economics Journals, 1920 to the Present," Economic Notes 20 (1, 1991): 135-148.
16. "Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions?" Methodus 3 (1, June 1991): 6-16. Reprinted as pp. 73-84 in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus—The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003. Reprinted in Geoffrey M. Hodgson, ed., Mathematics and Modern Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.
    • "The Arrogance of Economic Theorists" [German translation as "Die Arroganz der Wirtschaftstheorie: Okonomische Rechenkunste im Zwielicht"], Neue Zurcher Zeitung, 31 August/1 Sept 1991, p. 85, in the series Themen und Thesen der Wirtschaft, reprinted (in English) in Swiss Review of World Affairs 41 (7, Oct 1991): 11-12.
    • "Les Métaphores de la Science Economique." Le Monde, Apr 28, 1992, p. 39.
    • "The Rhetoric of Finance," for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992: 350-352.
    • Review of de Marchi and Blaug, eds., Appraising Economic Theories, Journal of Economic Literature 31 (1, Mar 1993): 229-231.
    • Review of Samuels's (ed.) Economics as Discourse, Journal of Economic History 53 (1, Mar 1993): 204-206.
    • Review of Rosenberg's Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? Isis 84 (4, Dec 1993): 838-39.
17. "How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why," in Roger Backhouse, ed., Economic Methodology. London: Routledge, 1994: 319-342. Reprinted in John B. Davis, ed. Recent Developments in Economic Methodology (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006).
18. "Economics and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge," in Robert Goodman and Walter Fisher, eds., Rethinking Knowledge: Reflections Across the Disciplines (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
    • "Fun in Econ 101," a review of John Kenneth Galbraith's A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View, Chicago Tribune Book World, 25 Sep 1994, Sec. 14, p. 4.
19. "How Economists Persuade," Journal of Economic Methodology 1 (1, June 1994): 15-32.
    • "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Harding's 'Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?'" Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124. (Also in Feminist Economics below).
20. "Metaphors Economists Live By," Social Research 62 (2, Summer 1995): 215-237. Translated into German in Diaz-Bone, Rainer, and Gertraude Krell, eds., Diskurs und Ökonomie: Diskursanalytische Perspektiven auf Märkte und Organisationen (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2008).
    • "Ask What the Boys in the Sandpit Will Have," Times Higher Education Supplement (London), 1996.
    • "Simulating Barbara," Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall, 1998): 181-186. (Also in part (8.) above).
21. "The Genealogy of Postmodernism: An Economist's Guide," pp. 102-128 in Stephen Cullenberg, Jack Amariglio, and David F. Ruccio, eds., Postmodernism, Economics, and Knowledge, New York and London: Routledge, 2001.
    • "Stiglerite vs. Friedmanite Science" (comment on Daniel Klein's "A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty"), Eastern Economic Journal 27 (2, Spring 2001): 209.
    • "Personal Knowledge," Preface to Stephen T. Ziliak, ed., Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey, Brighton: Elgar, Economists of the Twentieth Century Series, 2001. (See Books.)
22. "You Shouldn't Want a Realism If You Have a Rhetoric," in Uskali Mäki, ed. Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Rhetoric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
23. "The Demoralization of Economics: Can We Recover from Bentham and Return to Smith?" in Martha Fineman and Terence Dougherty, eds., Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Economics, and the Law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
24. "The Trouble with Mathematics and Statistics in Economics," History of Economic Ideas XIII (3,2005): 85-102, delivered to MUIR-PRIN project "The role of mathematics in the history of economics," Venice, January 28, 2005, with replies by Dardi, Egidi, Marchionatti, and Fontana.
    • ["Ethics, Milton Friedman, and the Good Old Chicago School," presented to the History of Economics Society, meetings of the ASSA, Chicago, 2007], unpublished.
    • "Sliding Into PoMo-ism from Samuelsonianism," comment on Jack Amariglio and David Ruccio's Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 24 (3, 2012).
    • "Preface" to Lukas Kovanda, ed. The Story of a Perfect Storm and Talks with Nobel Laureates (and others) about the Financial Crisis. Prague: Mediacop, 2010.
    • "Love: Love Has No Function in Samuelsonian Economics." Translated into German for The European: Das Debaten-Magazin 1 (1, 2012): 127-128 as "Liebe: Liebe hat keine Funktion."
25. "What Boulding Thought was Wrong with Economics, A Quarter Century On," in Interdisciplinary Economics - Kenneth E. Boulding's Engagement in the Sciences, eds. Wilfred Dolfsma and Stefan Kesting. London and New York: Routledge (Routledge series Critical Assessments of Contemporary Economists), 2013.
26. "Why Economics Is On the Wrong Track." Pp. 211-242 in Alessandro Lantieri and Jack Vromen, eds. The Economics of Economists: Institutional Settings, Individual Incentives, and Future Prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2014.
    • "Austrians, Anti-Samuelson, and the Rhetoric of Quantification: A Comment on Daniel Klein's Knowledge and Coordination." Studies in Emergent Order 6 (2013): 1-15.
    • “Comment on ‘Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach’ (by Werner Erhard and Michael C. Jensen).” Capitalism and Society (Columbia University Center on Capitalism) 12 (2017): 1-12.
    • Interview on the state of economics for Köz-Gazdaság, a Hungarian journal of opinion, Nov 2017.
27. “The Two Movements in Economic Thought, 1700-2000: Empty Economic Boxes Revisited,” forthcoming History of Economic Ideas 2017.

(11.) Invited replies to reviews of The Rhetoric of Economics and other works on the rhetoric of economics [top^]

• "The Two Cultures and Methodology [A Reply to Mark Blaug]," Critical Review 1 (3, Summer 1987): 124-127.
• "Responses to My Critics: A Mild Response to William Butos; An Agreeable Reply to A. W. Coats; A Disagreeable Reply to Steven Pressman," Eastern Economic Journal 13 (July-Sept 1987): 308-311.
• "Two Replies and a Dialogue on the Rhetoric of Economics: Rosenberg, Rappaport, and Mäki," Economics and Philosophy 4 (1988): 150-166.
• "Reply to reviews, by Klamer, Stewart, and Gleicher, of The Rhetoric of Economics," Review of Radical Political Economy 19 (3)(Fall 1987): 87-91. Translated into Spanish, Estudios Economicos [El Colegio de Mexico].
1. "Splenetic Rationalism: Hoppe's Review of Chapter 1 of The Rhetoric of Economics," Market Process 7 (1, Spring 1989): 34-41, reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, eds. The Market Process: Essays on Contemporary Austrian Economics (Edward Elgar, 1994), pp. 187-200.
2. "Commentary [on Rossetti and Mirowski]," pp. 261-271 in Neil de Macchi, ed., Post-Popperian Methodology of Economics: Recovering Practice. Boston: Kluwer, 1992.
   • "Reply to Munz," Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1, Jan/Mar 1990): 143-147.
   • "Modern Epistemology Against Analytic Philosophy: A Reply to Mäki," Journal of Economic Literature 33 (Sept 1995): 1319-1323.
   • Review of Mirowski's Natural Images in Economic Thought: Markets Read in Tooth and Claw, Isis, 1996.

(12.) The Rhetoric of Inquiry [top^]

• "Exchange of Letters on The Consequences of Pragmatism," Times Literary Supplement, August 26, 1983.
1. [co-authored with Allan Megill and John Nelson] "Rhetoric of Inquiry." Pp. 3-18 in Nelson, Megill, and McCloskey, eds. The Rhetoric of the Human Sciences (University of Wisconsin Press, 1987).
2. "The Limits of Expertise: If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?" The American Scholar 57 (3, Summer 1988): 393-406. Noted Best American Essays by Assay: A Journal of Non-Fiction Studies. Reprinted as pp. 92-111 in J. Lee Auspitz, W. W. Gasparski, M. K. Mlicki, and K. Szaniawski, eds. Praxiologies and the Philosophy of Economics. Spanish translation as "Si de verdad eras tan listo… (I)" in Revista de Occidente 83 (Apr 1988): 71-86. Reprinted in B. J. Caldwell, ed. The Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, Vol. II (Edward Elgar: 1993).
   • "The Very Idea of Epistemology: A Comment on Hausman and McPherson's 'Standards'" Economics and Philosophy 5 (Spring 1989): 1-6.
3. "The Dismal Science and Mr. Burke: Economics as a Critical Theory," pp. 99-114 in H. W. Simons and T. Melia, eds. The Legacy of Kenneth Burke (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989).
4. "Why I Am No Longer a Positivist." Review of Social Economy 47 (3, Fall 1989): 225-238. Reprinted as pp. 189-202 in Craig Freedman and Rick Szostak, eds., Tales of Narcissus—The Looking Glass of Economic Science, New York: Nova Science, 2003.
   • Review of Allan Bloom's Giants and Dwarfs: Essays, 1960-1990, Chicago Tribune Book World, Oct 1990.
5. "Platonic Insults: 'Rhetorical'." Common Knowledge 2 (2, Fall 1993): 23-32.
6. "Keeping the Company of Sophisters, Economists, and Calculators," in Fred Antczak, ed., Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995.
   • "An Economic Uncertainty Principle," Scientific American (Nov 1994): 107.
   • "Computation Outstrips Analysis," Scientific American (July 1995): 26.
   • "The Unquashed Masses," review of John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939, Reason, 26 (3, July 1994): 60-61.
   • "Big Rhetoric, Little Rhetoric: Gaonkar on the Rhetoric of Science," in Alan G. Gross and William M. Keith, eds., Rhetorical Hermeneutics, Invention and Interpretation in the Age of Science, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997): pp 101-112.
7. “Rhetoric, Economics, and Nature,” Chp. 9 in Simon Schaffer, et al., eds., Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge. London: SpringerNature, 2017, and discussion.
8. {{Someday I’ll write: “Seeing is Believing: The Philosophical Significance of the Infinitive and Participle of Indirect Doscourse in Plato.” Plato was misled by the distinction in Attic Greek between the {certain, admired, actual} seeing-form of indirect discourse “I saw John going downtown” and the {merely, rhetorical, easy-to-dismiss} hearing-form “I heard that John is going downtown.”}}

(13.) The Rhetoric of Significance Testing and Econometrics [top^]

• "The Loss Function Has Been Mislaid: The Rhetoric of Significance Tests," American Economic Review, Supplement 75 (2, May 1985): 201-205.
• "Why Economic Historians Should Stop Relying on Statistical Tests of Significance, and Lead Economists and Historians into the Promised Land," Newsletter of the Cliometric Society 2 (2, Nov 1986): 5-7.
• "Rhetoric Within the Citadel: Statistics," pp. 485-490 in J.W. Wenzel at al., eds., Argument and Critical Practice: Proceedings of the Fifth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation (Annandale, Va.: Speech Communication Association, 1987); reprinted in C. A. Willard and G. T. Goodnight, eds., Public Argument and Scientific Understanding (1993).
• "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance," Eastern Economic Journal 18 (Summer 1992): 359-361 (also in Other Brief Academic Items below).
1. "The Art of Forecasting, Ancient to Modern Times," Cato Journal 12 (1, Spring/Summer 1992): 23-43.
   • "The Insignificance of Statistical Significance," Scientific American (Apr 1995): 32-33.
   • "Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student," Eastern Economic Journal 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
   • "Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (3, Summer 1999):
   • "Two Vices: Proof and Significance," unpublished paper presented at a large AEA session in Chicago, Jan 3, 1998.}
   • "Beyond Merely Statistical Significance." Statement of editorial policy, Feminist Economics, 2000.
2. [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "The Standard Error of Regressions," Journal of Economic Literature, 34 (March, 1996): 97-114.
3. [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review," Journal of Socio-Economics 33: 527-546. It was the subject of a symposium, pp. 547-664, with comments by Arnold Zellner, Clive Granger, Edward Leamer, Joel Horowitz, Erik Thorbecke, Gerd Gigerenzer, Bruce Thompson, Morris Altman, and others (from a presentation at the American Economic Association annual convention, January 2004, Kenneth Arrow presiding).
   • [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "Significance Redux," pp. 665-675 of the symposium issue.
   • [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak], "A Final Word," in the symposium issue.
4. [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "Signifying Nothing: A Reply to Hoover and Siegler," Journal of Economic Methodology, 15 (1, March 2008): 39-57. Also available as PDF.
5. [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Fisherian 'Tests' in Biology, and Especially in Medicine." Biological Theory 4(1) 2009: 1-10. From Chps. 14-16 in The Cult of Statistical Significance.
6. [co-authored with Allan Ingraham of the law firm of Labaton Sucharow LLP, principal drafter, and S. T. Ziliak] "Brief of Amicus Curiae for the Respondents" before the U.S. Supreme Court, Matrixx Initiatives, Inc., et al., Petitioners, v. James Siracusano and NECA-IBEW Pension Fund, Respondents, on writ of certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Nov. 12, 2010, No. 09-1156. The case was decided in spring 2011 by a 9-0 vote in favor of our position.
   • [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "Statistical Significance in the New Tom and the Old Tom: A Reply to Thomas Mayer," Econ Journal Watch 9 (3, Sept 2012): 298-308.
   • [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "We Agree That Statistical Significance Proves Essentially Nothing: A Rejoinder to Thomas Mayer," Econ Journal Watch 10 (1, Jan 2013): 97-107.
   • "Challenging Statistical Significance" (interview for web seminar). Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, October 2013.
7. [co-authored with Stephen T. Ziliak] "Lady Justice v. Cult of Statistical Significance: Oomph-less Science and the New Rule of Law." In George DeMartino and D. N. McCloskey, eds. Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

(14.) Rhetoric of Law [top^]

• "The Rhetoric, Economics, and Economic History of Michelman's 'Republican Tradition: A Commentary'," Iowa Law Review 72 (5, July 1987): 1351-1353.
1. "The Rhetoric of Law and Economics," Michigan Law Review 86 (4, Feb 1988): 752-767.
2. [co-authored with John Nelson] "The Rhetoric of Political Economy," pp. 155-174 (Chapter 8) in James H. Nichols, Jr. and Colin Wright, eds. Political Economy to Economics—And Back? (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1990).
3. "The Essential Rhetoric of Law, Literature, and Liberty," review of Posner's Law as Literature, Fish's Doing What Comes Naturally, and White's Justice as Translation. Critical Review 5 (1, Spring 1991): 203-223.
   • "Minimal Statism and Metamodernism: A Reply to Jeffrey Friedman," Critical Review 6 (1, Dec 1992): 107-112.
4. "The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's The Nature of the Firm," Journal of Corporation Law 18 (2, Winter 1993): 424-439.
5. "The Rhetoric of Liberty," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 26 (1, 1996): 9-27.
   • Review of Gaskins's Burdens of Proof in Modern Discourse, Social Services Review 70 (3, Sept 1996): 482-489.
   • "Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall 1998): 77-85. Also in Gender Crossing.
   • "Procedural Justice," 500 words, pp. 509-510, for Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics 1998; new edition 2004.
6. [repeating as above] "Rhetoric of Significance Testing," coauthored with Allan Ingraham of Labaton Sucharow LLP, principal drafter, and S. T. Ziliak, "Brief of Amicus Curiae for the Respondents" before the U.S. Supreme Court.
7. “Irish (and English and American) Poets, Learn Your Trade: Law and Economics in Poetry.” In Alison L. LaCroix, Saul Levmore, and Martha Nussbaum, eds. Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformation. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018.

(15.) Academic Policy [top^]

1. "The Theatre of Scholarship and the Rhetoric of Economics," Southern Humanities Review 22 (Summer, 1988): 241-249.
   • "The Poverty of Letters: The Crushing Case Against Outside Letters for Promotion," Change 20 (5, Sept 1988): 7-9. Also the Chronicle of Higher Education item below in 2002.
   • "The Invisible Colleges and Economics: An Unacknowledged Crisis in Academic Life," Change 23 (6, Nov/Dec 1991): 10-11, 54.
   • "A Small College Aura for Large Institutions," Chronicle of Higher Education 38 (5, Sept 25, 1991): B3.
   • "Review of Bowen & Rudenstine's In Pursuit of the Ph.D.," Change 26 (1, Jan/Feb 1994) and Economics of Education Review 4 (1993): 359-365.
2. "The Public Research University in the Next Century: The Role of the Department of Communication," Planning, 1996.
   • "The Insanity of Letters of Recommendation," Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 2002.

(16.) Intellectual Biography [top^]

• "The Economic Consequences of Mr. Keynes." Review of Robert Skidelsky's John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920, Washington Post Book World, May 25, 1986.
• "Earl Hamilton," in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Thought and Doctrine (Macmillan, 1987).
• "Charles P. Kindleberger," in The New Palgrave, 1987.
1. "Robert William Fogel: An Appreciation by an Adopted Student,," pp. 14-25 in Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, eds., Strategic Factors in Nineteenth-Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
2. "Alexander Gerschenkron: By a Student," The American Scholar 61 (2, Spring 1992): 241-246.
   • Review of James Buchanan's Better Than Plowing, Constitutional Political Economy 3 (3, Sept 1992): 399-403.
3. "Fogel and North: Statics and Dynamics in Historical Economics," Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2, 1994).
   • "The Nobel Prize." Economic History Newsletter, Nov 19, 1993.
   • "The Persuasive Life," review of Hayek on Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wener, Reason, 26 (4, Aug/Sept 1994): 67-70.
   • "Chicago School of Economics," Encyclopedia of Chicago History, Spring 1999.
   • "Persuade and Be Free," review of Ebenstein's Friedrich Hayek, Reason, October 2001.
   • "Humility and Truth in Economics," pp. 173-177 in Jack High, ed., Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie, Cheltenham: Edwards Elgar, 2006 (also in Religious Economics below).
   • "Learning to Think Like an Economist: On Meeting Steven N. S. Cheung in 1968." Chinese journal Man and Society, 2016.
4. “Getting Over Naïve Scientism c. 1950: What Fogel and North Got Wrong.” For the session of the Cliometrics Society at the ASSA meetings on: Cliometrics in Historical Perspective: In Remembrance of Robert Fogel and Douglass North, January 7, 2017, forthcoming Cliometrica 12 (2018, September).
5. [“Schumpeter the Incomplete Rhetorician” Forthcoming, 2018 Critical Review]

(17.) Sociology of Science [top^]

• "A Postmodern Rhetoric of Sociology," review of D. W. Fiske and R. A. Shweder, Metatheory in Social Science, Contemporary Sociology 15 (6, Nov 1986).
• Review of Michael Mulkay's The Word and the World: Explorations in the Form of Sociological Analysis, American Journal of Sociology 93 (Sep 1987): 467-469.
• "A Strong Programme in the Rhetoric of Science," review of H. M. Collins's Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Research, Journal of Economic Psychology, 1996: 128-133.
• Review of M. C. LaFollete's Stealing into Print, Journal of Economic Literature 32 (Sep 1994): 1226-29.
• {see also as cited above "My Eureka Moment: Prudence, You No Longer Rule the World," Times Higher Education, 14 January 2010.

(18.) Feminist Economics [top^]

1. "Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics." Pp. 69-93 in Julie Nelson and Marianne Ferber, eds., Beyond Economic Man: Feminism and Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. The book was translated into Spanish as Más Allá del Hombre Económico: Economía y Teoría Feminista in Ediciones Cátedra in its "Feminismos" series in 2004.
2. {{"'What Did You Say?' A Postmodern Feminism of Economics." Unpublished.}}
   • "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, comment on Sandra Harding's 'Can Feminist Thought Make Economics More Objective?'," Feminist Economics 1 (3, Fall 1995): 119-124. (Also in Rhetorical Criticism in Economics above).
   • "Love and Money: A Comment on the Markets Debate," Feminist Economics 2 (2, Summer 1996): 137-140.
   • "Femmes Fiscales" (book review of Diamond Mary Anne et. al., Women of Value: Feminist Essays on the History of Women in Economics) Times Higher Education Supplement, 31 May 1996.
   • "May Days: Part of a Polylogue on Feminist Economics." A conversation on the FEMECON-L net, June 1994.
   • "Simulating Barbara," Feminist Economics 4 (3, Fall 1998): 181-186. (Also in Rhetorical Criticism in Economics above).
3. "Post-Modern Free-Market Feminism: A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak," Rethinking Marxism 12 (4, Winter 2000): 23-37.
4. "Women's Work in the Market, 1900-2000" (aka "Paid Work"), in Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, ed., Women in Twentieth-Century Britain: Economic, Social, and Cultural Change. London: Longmans, 2001 (also in Other Historical Subjects above).
   • "Cupid is no Stranger to Mammon" (review of Viviana Zelizer's The Purchase of Intimacy), Times Higher Education Supplement 14 Oct 2005: 24-25.
   • "Mr. Max U and the Substantive Error of Manly Economics," Comment on Jonung and Ståhlberg's "On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession," Econ Journal Watch 5 (2, May 2008): 32-35.

(19.) Gender Crossing [top^]

• "Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," Eastern Economic Journal 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553; reprinted in Lingua Franca, early spring 1996; shortened version in Harper's, July 1996.
• "It's Good to be a Don if You're Going to be a Deirdre," Times Higher Education Supplement, August 23, 1996, 1 page.
• "Transformation," Iowa Alumni Quarterly, Summer 1997, p. 49.
• "Becoming Stories." Pp. 112-117 in Linda Roodenburg, ed., Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity. Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1997. (Dutch section, pp. 118-123).
1. {"Caring for Gender: Sisters, Psychiatrists, and Gender Crossing," (Cleis Press? I'm not sure if this piece actually came out.)}
2. "Happy Endings: Law, Gender, and the University," Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2 (1, Fall 1998): 77-85 (see also The Rhetoric of Law above).
   • Excerpts from Crossing: A Memoir (1999): Reason magazine, Dec 1999; Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Jan 30, 2000.
   • "Slate Diary, Nov 29, 1999-Dec 3, 1999" [invited week of five diary entries, focusing on gender], Slate.com, and archived; reprinted in J. Kantor, C. Krohn, and J. Shulevitz, eds., The Slate Diaries. New York: PublicAffairs, 2000.
   • "Crossing Economics." The International Journal of Transgenderism [a peer-reviewed electronic journal], 4 (3, July-Sept 2000).
   • "Review of Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen," Reason November 2003 (reprinted in Independent Gay Forum, November 2003).
   • "Letters on 'The Man Who Would Be Queen'," Chicago Reader, Jan 2004.
   • "Introduction: Queer Markets," pp. 83-87 in Kevin G. Barnhurst, ed. Media/Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, forthcoming.
   • "Free to Be She—or He," invited op-ed piece, Toronto Globe and Mail, 1000 words, September 2007.
   • "Politics in Scholarly Drag: Alice Dreger's Assault on the Critics of Bailey's The Man Who Would Be Queen", Archives of Sexual Behavior 2008, June (in 2015 the 10th most cited article for sexology since 2008 in Mir Siadaty-BioMedLib index).
   • "Let Manning Be Chelsea." The New Republic web edition, August 2013.
   • "Before Bruce Jenner: When I Went from Donald to Deirdre." Des Moines Register, 740 words, May 5, 2015.
   • "Been There, Done That." Chronicle of Higher Education, October 18, 2015 (1000 words).
   • “My Transgender Transition: When Donald Became Deirdre.” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2016.
   • “One Woman’s Adventures in Gender Crossing and Civil Disobedience: Sex, Shrinks, and the State.” Reason, April 2017.
   • “Straight Man to Queer Woman, By Way of Economic Liberty.” Newsletter of the American Economic Association GLBTQ Group, August 2017.

(20.) Ethics, Bourgeois Virtues, and Economics [top^]

• Review of Wayne Booth's The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction, Chicago Tribune Book World, Dec 25, 1988, Sec. 14, p. 5.
1. "Bourgeois Virtue," The American Scholar 63 (2, Spring 1994): 177-191. Noted Best American Essays by Assay: A Journal of Non-Fiction Studies. Reprinted in Occasional Papers of the Centre for Independent Studies, New South Wales (short version reprinted in the Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter, Fall 1994). Reprinted in Eugene Heath, ed., Morality and the Market (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
   • "Bourgeois Blues," Reason 25 (1, May 1993): 47-51. Reprinted in Parth J. Shah, ed., Morality of Markets (India: Academic Foundation/Centre for Civil Society). Reprinted in Ted Lardner and Todd Lundberg, eds., Exchanges: Reading and Writing About Consumer Culture (Longman, 2001).
   • "Bourgeois Virtue," 1000 words, pp. 44-46 in Patricia Werhane and E. R. Freeman, eds. Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Blackwell: Malden, MA and London, 1997; reprinted in second edition.
   • "Breakthrough Books: The Market," Lingua Franca, July/August 1995.
2. {"Eighteenth-Century Virtues: Smith and Franklin." Presented to conferences in Australia, and New Zealand in summer 1996; a version appears as five chapters in Bourgeois Equality, 2016.}
3. "Missing Ethics in Economics," pp. 187-201 in Arjo Klamer, ed., The Value of Culture: On the Relationships Between Economics and Arts. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1996.
4. "Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S," Presidential Address, presented at the Economic History Association, New Brunswick, NJ, Sept 1997, published in The Journal of Economic History 58 (2, June 1998): 297-317.
5. "The Bourgeois Virtues." World Economics 5 (July-September 2004): 1-16.
   • "Review of Cameron's The Economics of Sin: Rational Choice or No Choice at All?" Times Higher Education Supplement, January 2004.
6. "Not by P Alone: A Virtuous Economy", in Irene van Staveren, ed, special issue on ethics in economics for the Review of Political Economy 20 (2, 2008): 181-197, and chosen in July, 2013, as one of the 25 best articles published in the Review over the past 25 years; reprinted in Wilfred Dolfsma and Irene van Staveren, eds., Ethics and Economics: New Perspectives. Routledge, 2009. Slightly revised and reprinted in Cash on the Table: Anthropological Engagements with Economics and Economies, eds. Edward F. Fischer and Peter Benson. Santa Fe: School of Advanced Research Press, 2012.
   • "The Bourgeois Virtues," History Today 56 (Sept): 20-27.
   • "Bourgeois Virtues?" a 3100-word essay selected from The Bourgeois Virtues, quite different in emphasis from the previous item, Cato Policy Report, June 2006.
7. "Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists" History of Political Economy 40 (1, 2008): 43-71. Also in Jeffrey Young, ed., The Elgar Companion to Adam Smith, 2010. Reprinted 2009 in Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being, a 2,000-article set of CDs made available to 5,000 universities in poor countries.
   • ["Reply to David Wootton" for his review of The Bourgeois Virtues, in the Times Literary Supplement, October 2006. (Not intended for publication but available on this website.)]
   • Interview with Deirdre McCloskey by Peter Babiak, "Saints, Sweet Talk and the Madwoman in the Economics Department", subTerrain 45 (5, Fall 2006): 35-38.
8. "Sacred Economics, Part I: Wage Slavery" and "Sacred Economics, Part II: The Rich" (from The Bourgeois Virtues, 2006) in Sandra Peart and David Levy, eds., The Street Porter and the Philosopher (2008, University of Michigan Press).
9. [with Jack Amariglio] "Fleeing Capitalism: A Slightly Disputatious Conversation/Interview among Friends," pp. 276-319 in Jack Amariglio, Joseph Childers, and Steven Cullenberg, eds., Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics, 2008, London: Routledge.
   • "Review of Marglin's The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community," Times Higher Education Supplement, 27 March 2008, 600 words.
   • Listening, Really Listening: Reply to Graafland, Binmore, and Ferber on The Bourgeois Virtues, Journal of Economic Methodology 16 (2, 2009): 221-232 (7000 words).
   • "The Economics and the Anti-Economics of Consumption" in Karin Ekstrom and Kay Glans, eds., Changing Consumer Roles, Routledge 2010.
10. "Life in the Market Is Good for You." Pp. 139-168 in Mark D. White, ed., Accepting the Invisible Hand. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
11. "What Happened in Modern Economic History, and Why Economics Can't Explain It." Engelsberg Seminar, Sweden, May 2010, forthcoming in conference volume, 5700 words; also in Michael Zöller, ed., conference volume from Berlin meeting, May 2010.
    • "My Eureka Moment: Prudence, You No Longer Rule the World," Times Higher Education, 14 January 2010.
    • "Liberty and Dignity Explain the Modern World," pp. 27-30 in Tom G. Palmer, ed., The Morality of Capitalism. Ottawa, IL: Jameson, 2011. Reprinted in Indian edition, New Delhi, Centre for Civil Society, 2014. Translated into Bulgarian, 2015, and many other languages, as Palmer commissions translations.
    • "Eine Frage der Ehre." Interview by Michael Wiederstein and Florian Rittmeyer. Schweizer Monat 994 (March 2012): 14-19.
    • "Bürgerliche Tugenden?" ["Bourgeois Virtues?"], Schweizer Monat 997 (June 2012): 44-47.
    • "A Liberal and Rhetorical Reply." 2012. Journal of Socio-Economics (Special issue devoted to Bourgeois Dignity. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2012.09.002
    • "Kapitalisme," one-page interview in the magazine of Trouw, a Dutch newspaper, 22 Dec 2012
    • "Kapitalisme is deugdzaam" (Capitalism is virtuous), Interview by Robert Dulmers, cover article in De Groene Amsterdammer 137 (2013), no. 31, pp. 20-25. Reprinted as "De Wereld draait ook op liefde" ("The world runs also on love") in (Flemish Belgium’s financial newspaper) De Tijd
    • "The Great Enrichment Continues." (1500 words), Current History 112 (November, 2013): 323-325.
    • "The Fruits of Humility, and Reading, in Economics: A Genial Reply to Don Boudreaux," and subsequent replies to Joel Mokyr and John Nye. Liberty Fund's Liberty Matters online intellectual exchange, July 2014. Reprinted in The Collected Liberty Matters: Nos. 1-10 (Jan. 2013–July 2014), ed. David M. Hart and Sheldon Richman (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2014).
    • "Equality Lacks Relevance if the Poor are Growing Richer." Financial Times, August 11 (or 12?), 2014.
    • "Two Kinds of Ethics of Creativity in Business," introduction to Nils Karlson, ed. Virtues and Entrepreneurship. Stockholm: Ratio Institute, 2014. 4,000 words.
12. "A Change in Rhetoric Made Modernity, and Can Spread It.” In Konrad Hummler and Alberto Mingardi, eds., The Future of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Tito Tettamanti. Torino: IBL Libri. 2016. German and Italian versions of the book will follow. Taken from my Bourgeois Equality, 2016.
13. "Bourgeois Dignity Arrives in Early Georgian Drama." International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 7 (2, Spring 2016): 104-115, lead article in special issue on Economics and Literature (Michelle Albert Vachris, ed.), taken from Chaps. 27 and 28 of Bourgeois Equality.
    • "Two Cheers for Corruption," review of Sarah Chayes's Thieves of State and Jay Cost's A Republic No More. Wall Street Journal, 28 February 2015, 1,500 words.
    • "Waroom zijn wij zo rijk?," "from De Groene Amsterdammer (a weekly magazine founded in 1877) Sept 23, 2015; English version (3,600 words): "Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World."
    • “Bourgeois Dignity: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World.” Pp. 30-37 in Hywel Williams, ed., A World Transformed: Studies in the History of Capitalism, Volume Two. London: Legatum Institute, 2016. German translation, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 2016.
    • [with Art Carden] “If We Keep Our Ethical Wits, We Can See Over into a Great Enrichment.” Independent Review, Winter 2016, 1,800 words. Also in Robert Whaples, Christopher Coyne, and Michael Munger, eds., Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity? Independent Institute, 2016.
    • “How the Light Really Gets In: The Liberal and Bourgeois Deal,” Hay-on-Wye, Wales, How-the-Light-Gets-In Festival. 30 May 2016
    • "While Conforming to . . . Law and . . . Ethical Custom": How to Do Humanomics in Business Ethics. Preface to Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis, eds., Wealth, Commerce and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. vii-xi.
14. "The Great Enrichment: A Humanistic and Social Scientific Account." Scandinavian Economic History Review, 64 (1, 2016): 6-18, from Bourgeois Equality. Appearing with minor revisions also in Social Science History 40 (Winter, 2016): 1-16.
    • "Neo-Institutionalism Is Not Yet a Scientific Success: A Reply to Barry Weingast's Comment" (on the previous item). Scandinavian Economic History Review 2017, issue 2. [Also in the category Against Neo-Institutional Economics below]
    • “The Economic Sky Is Not Falling.” Prospect Magazine (London), March 2016. Reprinted May 2016, Global Residence & Citizenship Review (Zurich).
    • “Liberalism for Italians.“ Interview with Eleonora Barbieri in the Italian magazine Il Giornale (translated into Italian), September 2016.
    • "Interview with McCloskey," by Grégoire Canlorbe, envisaged for the June 2017 issue of Man and the Economy.
    • "The Great Enrichment and the Indigo Era: An Interview." Draft of September 2016 for The Indigo Age, fall 2016.
    • Interview in Economy (a Bulgarian magazine, for which it was translated into Bulgarian) by Irina Atanasova, February 2017.
15. "The Great Enrichment Came and Comes from Ethics and Rhetoric." Chp. 9 in Arthur Melzer and Steven Kautz, eds., Are Markets Moral? University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
    • "Reply to Eric Jones' Review of the Bourgeois Era Trilogy." Economic Affairs (Institute for Economic Affairs, London), May 2017 (4,100 words).
    • "An Economist Goes to Shanghai." Reason magazine, June 2017: 10-11.
    • {"Reply to a Proposal to 'Test' the Bourgeois Virtues: A Letter to a Young Scholar." November 2017, Published only on my website.}
    • [with George F. DeMartino] “Professional Ethics 101: A Reply to Anne Krueger’s Review of ‘The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics’” {concerning her review in the Journal of Economic Literature}, Econ Journal Watch 15(1, January 2018): 4-19.

(21.) Religious Economics [top^]

1. "Voodoo Economics." Poetics Today 12 (2, Summer 1991): 287-300.
   • "Foreword" to Robert H. Nelson, Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics. Savage, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1991, pp. xi-xvii.
   • "Christian Economics?" Eastern Economic Journal 25 (4, Fall 1999): 477-480.
2. "Avarice, Prudence, and the Bourgeois Virtues." Pp. 312-336 in William Schweiker and Charles Mathewes, eds. Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2004.
   • "What Would Jesus Spend? Why Being a Good Christian Won't Hurt the Economy." In Character 1 (2004). Linked at the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal, November 2004. Reprinted in The Christian Century, May 4, 2004, pp. 24-30. Now titled "Thrift, Economy, and God."
   • "Importing Religion Into Economics," Faith and Economics, 2006.
3. "Humility and Truth." Anglican Theological Review 88 (2, May 2006): 181-96.
   • "Humility and Truth in Economics," pp. 173-177 in Jack High, ed., Humane Economics: Essays in Honor of Don Lavoie. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006.
   • {{"God and Mammon," unpublished lecture.}}
   • "Reply to Eugene McCarraher," 1100 words, May/June 2008 issue of Books & Culture.
   • "The Recession: A Christian Crisis?" 500-word essay in Christian Century, July 28, 2009.
   • "Work in the World: An Economist's Sermon." Faith and Economics, Fall, 2013. Also available on the Australian Broadcasting Company website, Nov 2013. Reprinted in facsimile in Paul Oslington, Mary Hirschfeld, Paul S. Williams, eds., Recent Developments in the Economics of Religion, International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Arnold, 2017.
   • "Virtues Lost: How It Happened and Why We Can't Live Without Them." Australian Broadcasting Company, Religion and Ethics site, 18 Dec 2013.
   • “Christian Crossing,” 100-word essay in The Christian Century, January 18, 2017.
4. "Not Institutions, But Ethics and Religion: A Reply to Whaples, Hill, Fox, Oslington, and Boettke and Candela." Response to a symposium on Bourgeois Equality, in Faith and Economics 68 (Fall 2016): 47-62.

(22.) Political Philosophy [top^]

1. "Hobbes, Rawls, Buchanan, Nussbaum, and All Seven of the Virtues." Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines 17(1, January 2011). Translated into Swedish, Timbro Klassiker, December 2016.
2. {"The Hobbes Problem: From Machiavelli to Buchanan"}, First Annual Buchanan Lecture, George Mason University, April 7, 2006. Based on previous items. A later version was presented at the Western division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, 30 March 2016.
   • "Hobbes, Nussbaum, and All Seven of the Virtues," 1400-word comment at conference at the Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, March 10, 2006 on "Nussbaum and Cosmopolitanism," in a special issue of Development and Change, 37(6), 2006, Des Gasper, ed.
3. "The Rhetoric of the Economy and the Polity." Annual Review of Political Science 14 (May/June 2011): 181-199.
   • "Giving a Damn: The Missing Ethics in Political Philosophy," June 2012 contribution to online symposium on John Tomasi's Free Market Fairness at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians site.
   • "Factual Free-Market Fairness," a response to the symposium on Tomasi’s Free Market Fairness at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians site, June 16, 2012, with 350 comments and 100 or so tweets.
4. "The Poverty of Communitarianism" (review of Michael Sandel's What Money Can’t Buy). Claremont Review of Books 12 (Fall 2012): 57-59. A longer version is "The Moral Limits of Communitarianism: What Michael Sandel Can't Buy." The longer version was reprinted (in English) in the book review section of the German journal ORDO (Band 64, spring 2013: 538-543).
5. "Economic Liberty as Anti-Flourishing: Marx and Especially His Followers." In Michael R. Strain and Stan A. Veuger, eds., Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy, 129-149. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2016.
   • "Christian Libertarianism Is What Our Politics Needs." Comment on "Libertarianism, Yes! But What Kind of Libertarianism? The Case for 'Virtue Libertarianism' over 'Libertinism'" by William Ruger and Jason Sorens, Reason, June 9, 2016, 1000 words.
   • "The Secret History of the Minimum Wage," Reason, July 2016 (review of Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, 2016).
   • "Interview on Liberalism and Russia" by Vadim Volkov (Вадим Новиков) for Liberty, November 2016.
   • "Nationalism and Socialism Are Very Bad Ideas, but liberalism is a good one." Reason February 2017. Translated into Portuguese at www.indigo.org.br, the website for Instituto de Inovação & Governança, March 2017.
6. "Manifesto for a New American Liberalism, or How to Be a Humane Libertarian," revision of the introduction to How to be a Humane Libertarian: Essays in a New American Liberalism (forthcoming, book manuscript under review, Yale University Press), for a conference volume edited by Benjamin Powell, available online at CapX (online publication of the Centre for Policy Studies, London), June 15, 2017.

(23.) Language, Humanomics, and the Economy [top^]

1. [co-authored with Arjo Klamer] "One Quarter of GDP is Persuasion." American Economic Review 85 (2, May 1995): 191-95.
   • "A Solution to the Alleged Inconsistency in the Neoclassical Theory of Markets: Reply to Guerrien's Reply." Post-Autistic Economics Review 39, article 5, October 2006.
   • "Creative Destruction vs. the New Industrial State: The 'embedded' capitalism of Joseph Schumpeter and John Kenneth Galbraith." Review of Thomas K. McCraw, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction and John K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State. Reason magazine, Oct 2007.
2. "How to Buy, Sell, Make, Manage, Produce, Transact, Consume with Words." Introductory essay in Edward M. Clift, ed., How Language Is Used to Do Business: Essays on the Rhetoric of Economics/ Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press 2008.
3. "Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure," cover story in The New Republic, June 28, 2012. Among 5 "Honorable Mentions" supplementing the 16 chosen by David Brooks for a "Sidney Award" (out of 20 noted in his columns Dec 24 and Dec 27, 2012), and one of four in The New Republic mentioned for "the best [American] magazine essays" of 2012. Mentioned as "notable" in Best American Essays 2013.
   • "Die Geisteswissenschaften und die Wirtschaft" ("The Humanities and the Economy"). In German. Schweizer Monat, autumn 2012.
4. "Adam Smith Did Humanomics: So Should We." Eastern Economic Journal 42(4), 503–513.
   • "Economics With a Human Face," review of Morson and Schapiro, Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities. Wall Street Journal, August 2017.

(24.) Against Neo-Institutional Economics [top^]

• "The Good Old Coase Theorem and the Good Old Chicago School: Comment on the Medema-Zerbe Paper," in Steven G. Medema, ed., Coasean Economics: The New Institutional Economics and Law and Economics. Boston: Kluwer Publishing, 1997, pp. 239-248.
• "The So-Called Coase Theorem" Eastern Economic Journal 24 (3, Summer 1998): 367-371.
• "A Neo-Institutionalism of Measurement, Without Measurement: A Comment on Douglas Allen's The Institutional Revolution." Review of Austrian Economics 26 (4, 2013): 363-373.
• "Getting Beyond Neo-Institutionalism: Virgil Storr's Culture of Markets." Review of Austrian Economics 27 (2014): 463-472.
1. "Max U versus Humanomics: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalism." Journal of Institutional Economics 12, Spring 2015: 1-27.
   • "The Humanities are Scientific: A Reply to the Defenses of Economic Neo-Institutionalism" (made by Grief, Mokyr, Langois, Lawson, and Tabellini). Journal of Institutional Economics 12(2015): 63-78.
2. "Ideas, Not Interests or Institutions, Caused the Great Enrichment." Man and the Economy: The Journal of the Coase Society. June 2015.
3. "Not Saving or Psychology or Science, But a New Liberalism: A Reply to Gaus, Goldstone, Baker, Amadae, and Mokyr." Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics 9(2): 66-89, Autumn 2016.
   • "Neo-Institutionalism is Not Yet a Scientific Success: A Reply to Barry Weingast." Scandinavian Economic History Review, forthcoming 2017. [Also in Ethics, Bourgeois Virtues, and Economics above].
   • "Excuses for Statism, and Staying Poor." For the 40th anniversary of the Cato Institute, Cato Journal 2017.
   • "Not Institutions, But Ethics and Religion: A Reply to Whaples, Hill, Fox, Oslington, and Boettke and Candela." Response to a symposium on Bourgeois Equality, in Faith and Economics 68 (Fall 2016): 47-62. [Also in Religious Economics above.]
4. "Lachmann Practiced Humanomics, Beyond the Dogma of Behaviorism." Forthcoming 2017, Review of Austrian Economics.

(25.) Other Brief Academic Items [top^]

• "Review of Stratton and Brown's Agricultural Records in Britain," Journal of Economic History, 40 (1, March 1980): p. 189.
• "Fungibility," in The New Palgrave, 1987; reprinted New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance (Macmillan U.K.; Stockton), 1992.
• "Gresham's Law," for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, 1992.
• "Reading the Economy." Humane Studies Review, 70 (2, Spring 1992): pp. 1, 10-13.
• "Duty and Creativity in Economic Scholarship," in Michael Szenberg, ed., Passion and Craft: Economists at Work, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Version reprinted in Sarah Philipson, ed. A Passion for Research, in progress 2006.
• "When the Winner Takes All: Private Monopoly Is Not the Problem." Essay for Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) News (organizer of How the Light Gets in Festival), August 2017, 930 words.
1. "Other Things Equal" (columns in the Eastern Economic Journal 1992-2003. Many of these through 1999 are included in How to be Human* *Though an Economist):
   1.   "The Natural" 18 (2, Spring 1992): 237-239.
   2.   "The Bankruptcy of Statistical Significance" 18 (3, Summer 1992): 359-361.
   3.   "Schelling's Five Truths of Economics" 19 (1, Winter 1993): 109-112.
   4.   "The A-Prime, C-Prime Theorem" 19 (2, Fall 1993): 235-238.
   5.   "Reading I've Liked" 19 (3, Summer 1994): 395-399.
   6.   "Economics: Art or Science or Who Cares?" 20 (1, Winter 1994): 117-120.
   7.   "How to Organize a Conference," 20 (2, Spring 1994): 221-224.
   8.   "Why Don't Economists Believe Empirical Findings?" 20 (3, Summer 1994): 357-350
   9.   "To Burn Always with a Hard, Gemlike Flame, Eh Professor?" 20 (4, Fall 1994): 479-481
   10.   "He's Smart, and He's a Nice Guy Too," 21 (1, Winter 1995): 109-112.
   11.   "How to Host a Seminar Visitor," 21 (2, Spring 1995): 271-274.
   12.   "Kelly Green Golf Shoes and the Intellectual Range from M to N," 21 (3, Summer 1995): 411-414.
   13.   "Some News That At Least Will Not Bore You," 21 (4, Fall 1995): 551-553.
   14.   "Love or Money" 22 (1, Winter 1996): 97-100.
   15.   "Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too" 22 (2, Spring 1996)
   16.   "Economic Tourism" 22 (3, Summer 1996)
   17.   "One Small Step for Gary" 23 (1, Winter 1997): 113-116.
   18.   "Aunt Deirdre's Letter to a Graduate Student," 23 (2, Spring 1997): 241-244.
   19.   "The Rhetoric of Economics Revisited" 23 (3, Summer 1997): 359-362.
   20.   "Polanyi Was Right, and Wrong" 23 (4, Fall 1997): 483-487.
   21.   "Quarreling with Ken" 24 (1, Winter 1998): 111-115.
   22.   "Small Worlds, or, the Preposterousness of Closed Economy Macro" 24 (2, Spring 1998): 229-232.
   23.   "The So-Called Coase Theorem" 24 (3, Summer 1998): 367-371.
   24.   "Career Courage" 24 (4, Fall 1998): 525-528.
   25.   "Learning to Love Globalization" 25 (1, Winter 1999): 117-121.
   26.   "Economical Writing: An Executive Summary" 25 (2, Spring 1999):
   27.   "Cassandra's Open Letter to Her Economist Colleagues" EER 25 (3, Summer 1999): .
   28.   "Christian Economics?" EER 25 (4, Fall 1999):
   29.   "Alan Greenspan Doesn't Influence Interest Rates," EER 26 (1, Winter 2000): 99-102
   30.   "How to Be Scientific in Economics," EER 26 (2, Spring, 2000): 241-46.
   31.   "Free Market Feminism 101," EER 26 (3, Summer): 363-65.
   32.   "How to Be a Good Graduate Student," EER 26 (4, Fall 2000): 487-90.
   33.   "Three Books of Oomph," EER 27 (1, Winter 2001): "Books of Oomph," reprinted Post-Autistic Economics Newsletter, 8 May 2001
   34.   "Getting It Right, and Left: Marxism and Competition." 2001 EER 27 (4): 515-520.
   35.   "The Insanity of Letters of Recommendation" 2002 EER 28 (1): 137-140. [also in The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2002.]
   36.   "What's Wrong with the Earth Charter." 2002 EER 28 (2): 269-272, with reply to Professor England.
   37.   "Samuelsonian Economics," 2002 EER 28 (3): 425-30.
   38.   "Why Economists Should Not Be Ashamed of Being Philosophers of Prudence." 2003 EER 28 (4): 551-556.
   39.   "Milton," 2003 EER 29 (1): 143-146.
   40.   "Notre Dame Loses," 2003 EER 29 (2): 309-315.

(26.) Other Journalism (short pieces) [top^]

• Review of Herbert Stein's Washington Bedtime Stories: The Politics of Money and Jobs,"The Economic Consequences of Economists." Washington Post Book World, Nov 30, 1986. Reprinted in Washington Post Weekly, Manchester Guardian Weekly.
• "Poland is Delicate Mix of Freedom, Fear," Des Moines Register, Oct 10, 1988.
• "The Circus of Politics." Liberty Tree 6 (1, May 1992), pp. 1, 3-5.
• "Three Books the New President Should Read." Reason, Dec. 1992.
• "Overgeinzingen Deirdre McCloskey bij afschied" Quod Novum, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Nummer 19, Jaargang 30-22 Januari 1997, English text, one page.
• Week-long diary for Slate, December 1999, mentioned above in Gender Crossing
• 30-minute Interview on Eight Forty-Eight on Chicago Public Radio and affiliates, interviewed by Steve Edwards, producer, Gianofer Fields, received the 1999 Public Radio News Directors Inc (PRNDI) First Place Award in the Interview category.
• "Off Piste: One Tongue, Very Tied" {orignally "On Not Knowing Even French"), Time Higher Education, July 17, 2008.
• "Hopes and Fears for Obama," Reason, September 2008.
• "Radical Idea that Inspired the Industrial Revolution: That is: It's good to be rich." New York Post, Feb 12, 2011.
• "Anti-capitalist slogans have real costs: Don't put down a goose that lays golden eggs," City A.M.s a newspaper of the City of London, 800 Words. November 28, 2011.
• "The secret of wealth? Liberty and dignity for innovators." Interview in Italian magazine Primo Piano Scala c, issue n. 3 March 2011. Also in English translation.
• (as above) "Equality Lacks Relevance If the Poor Are Growing Richer." Financial Times, August 11 (or 12?), 2014.
• Paragraph for "'The Big Read' on Wage Growth." Financial Times, 18 September 2014.
• Paragraph for "Books of 2014." Wall Street Journal, Dec 2014.
• "Guaranteed Income? Yes: Rethink How to Help Poor, End Subsidies and Instill Dignity." Orlando Sentinel, June 28, 2016.
• "Is Globalization Over?" City A.M., 160 words, July 26, 2016.
• "The Long View on Brexit: Liberalism, Nationalism, and Socialism." July 2016, for the blog of the Istituto Bruno Leoni. Reprinted Schweizer Monat, August.
• Interview on politics and economics by Mauricio Rodriguez, translated into Spanish for La Tercera, a Chilean newspaper, Sept 22 2016.
1. regular Reason magazine columns, since 2016 [some also listed in other categories above]:
   • "Nationalism and Socialism Are Very Bad Ideas," February 2017.
   • "One Woman's Adventures in Gender Crossing and Civil Disobedience," April 2017.
   • "An Economist Goes to Shanghai," June 2017.
   • "The Myth of Technological Unemployment," August 2017. Translated into French on the blog of Jasmin Guénette at Huffington Post, Oct 2017.
   • "Against 'Capitalism'," November 2017.
   • "The Applied Theory of Bossing People Around: Thaler's Nobel," February 2018.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION, AND PROJECTED

Virtually Complete
{How to be a Humane Libertarian: Essays for a New Liberalism}. Manuscript of political essays 1990-2017, under review, Yale University Press, Jan 2018.

{[with Arjo Klamer and Stephen T. Ziliak] The Economic Conversation: A First Text}. To be published electronically 2017?
Website | Preface to Students | Preface to Teachers | A Trialogue | Contents
Partially Drafted, and Likely to Happen Quite Soon, Deo volente
{[with Art Carden] Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: The Bourgeois Deal}, a single-volume, popular version of the Bourgeois Era trilogy. Draft available now. Seeking a trade publisher.
Projected (But Many's the Slip)
{Third edition of The Applied Theory of Price: A First Graduate Text}. Updating comments to the old second edition, in progress 2018, bringing the Max-U examples up to date by adding economic ideas since 1985, and showing the force of humanomics, that is, the humanities and ethics in economics.

{{Linguinomics}}. Language is neglected in economics—for example, in the explanation of the Industrial Revolution. The ideological and conversational shift from 1700 to 1848 is here examined.

{{[perhaps co-authored with Ross B. Emmett, Michigan State University] God in Mammon: Sermons on a Christian Economics}}. Sample chapters available.

{{A Little Economic History of the World}}. An economic history for children, on the model of Gombrich's old A Little History of the World.

{{The Prudent and Faithful Peasant: An Essay in Pre-Modern History}}. Using the essays in section 4 above on medieval open fields as a core, showing the workings of prudence modified by other virtues in olden times. It challenges the claim by Marx and Weber that rationality is peculiarly modern and the claim by materialists that religious motives have no grip on the economy. 350 pages in MS.

{{{Reading the Economy: An Anthology of Literary Works in English from Chaucer to Maya Angelou}}}, sketched. It will only happen if some publisher wants it urgently. Designed for the bed-table of the bourgeois(e) bleared with trade, and for the growing number of courses in English and Economics nationwide, the anthology selects poetry, short stories, plays, literary essays, and chapters of novels re-presenting the economy: Frost's "Two Tramps at Mudtime," for example, or Gaskell on British industrialization, or Miller's "Death of a Salesman." It teaches economic ways of thinking to literary people and opens the literary world to economists and calculators. 800 pages.

{{{Economie: A Literary Economics}}}. A brief book, some 150 pages, about the economy in literature and economics in the discourse of literary leftism. It will introduce literary people to a conversation in scientific economics that they stopped attending to in the middle of the 19th century. Topics: "economy" as metaphor in literary studies; the economy as a subject for literary works (e.g. Hard Times; Frost on farming; naturalism, as in Zola and Dreiser); left, right, and middle views on how capitalism functions; what happened in economic history (e.g. trade unions are not responsible for the American standard of living); globalization, postcolonialism, and free-market feminism.

{{{The Success of British Capitalism}}}. Gathering and extending my work early and late against the persistent but strange assertion that Britain has failed. 350 pages in MS.