Measurement and Meaning in Economics : The Essential Deirdre McCloskey,9781843761747

Measurement and Meaning in Economics : The Essential Deirdre McCloskey

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ISBN13: 9781843761747
ISBN10: 1843761742
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Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Edward Elgar Pub
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Author Biography

Deirdre N. McCloskey is University Professor of the Human Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago Stephen Thomas Ziliak is Assistant Professor of Economics at Bowling Green State University, and Visiting Professor at Emory University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: D.N. McCloskey and the Rhetoric of a Scientific Economics ix
Stephen Thomas Ziliak
Preface: Personal Knowledge xxvii
Deirdre McCloskey
PART I WRITING HISTORICAL ECONOMICS AS IF MEASUREMENT MATTERED
'Did Victorian Britain Fail?', The Economic History Review, 23, December 1970, 446--59
3(14)
'English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk', Research in Economic History, 1, Fall 1976, 124--70
17(47)
'How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880--1913', with J. Richard Zecher in The Gold Standard in Theory and History, B. Eichengreen (ed.), 1985, Methuen Inc., 63--80
64(18)
'Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England' with John Nash, American Economic Review, 74 (1), March 1984, 174--87
82(14)
'1780--1860: A Survey' in The Economic History of Britain, 1700--1860, R. Floud and D.N. McCloskey (eds), 1994, Cambridge University Press, 242--70 and references
96(34)
'Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S', The Journal of Economic History, 58 (2), June 1998, 297--317
130(23)
PART II WRITING ECONOMICS AND HISTORY AS IF MEANING MATTERED
'Why I Am No Longer A Positivist', Review of Social Economy, 47 (3), Fall 1989, 225--38
153(14)
'The Rhetoric of Economics', Journal of Economic Literature, 21 (2), June 1983, 481--517
167(37)
'Storytelling in Economics' in Narrative in Culture, C. Nash and M. Warner (eds), 1990, Routledge, 5--22
204(18)
'How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why' in The Rhetoric of Economics, 1998 (2nd edition), University of Wisconsin Press, 3--19 and references
222(20)
'History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration', History and Theory, 30 (1), 1991, 21--36
242(16)
'The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades', in The Rhetoric of Economics, 1998 (2nd edition), University of Wisconsin Press, 52--73 and references
258(23)
'The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's ``The Nature of the Firm''', in The Rhetoric of Economics, 1998 (2nd edition), University of Wisconsin Press, 87--99 and references
281(15)
'Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics' in Beyond Economic Man: Feminism and Economics, M.A. Ferber and J.A. Nelson (eds), 1993, University of Chicago Press, 69--93
296(25)
'Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions', Methodus, 3 (1), June 1991, 6--16
321(11)
'The Standard Error of Regressions', with Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Journal of Economic Literature, 34, March 1996, 97--114
332(18)
Appendix: The Publications of Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 1968--2000 350(15)
Name index 365

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