McCloskey, Deirdre N.

Measurement and meaning in economics the essential Deirdre McCloskey / [Book] : Deirdre McCloskey ; edited and introduced by Stephen Thomas Ziliak. - Northampton, MA : Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, c2001. - xxviii, 371 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Economists of the twentieth century .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 350-364) and index.

A collection of the writings of Deirdre McCloskey on economic history and the rhetoric of economics. The book reflects McCloskey's evolution over time: from economist to critic; positivist to postmodernist; conventional economist to feminist economist; and man to woman. McClosky argues that economics has become ahistorical and narrowly scientific; a harmful development for a moral science. The book shows the critic's attempts to repair the dysfunctional relationship between economics and the humanities.

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Economics.
Rhetoric.

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