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.