Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain : Essays in Historical Economics

Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics

Business & Money

McCloskey, Deirdre N.

Economics

Unwin Hyman

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized thescientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul.Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a humanomics, and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.

The rhetoric of economics (Rhetoric of the human sciences)

University of Wisconsin Press

The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a "humanomics," and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.

A classic in its field, this pathbreaking book humanized the scientific rhetoric of economics to reveal its literary soul. Economics needs to admit that it, like other sciences, works with metaphors and stories. Its most mathematical and statistical moments are properly dominated by comparison and narration, that is to say, human persuasion. The book was McCloskey's opening move in the development of a humanomics and unification of the sciences and the humanities on the field of ordinary business life.

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

Donald McCloskey's previous books, The Rhetoric of Economics and If You're So Smart, aimed to bring economics back into the wider conversation of the day. In Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics he carries the conversation further, into the seminars of philosophers. His message is that economics is a science, but a human science. It is properly mathematical, but literary too. His book is highly unusual: a work of technical economics that can be read by anyone, a witty guide to the ins and outs of economic philosophy expressed in plain English.

Cambridge University Press

In this collection of 10 essays, Donald McCloskey refutes the widespread notion that Britain's present economic difficulties date from the failure of Victorian businessmen. As one of the pioneers of the "cliometric" movement, he uses economics to analyse the British economy's effectiveness in the last century and argues lucidly that economic rationality is not a product of recent times. He also dispels the twin myths that there was never enough information to apply modern economic analysis to the past or that economics itself can survive without historical perspective. Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain is a major work of historical economics and should be valuable reading for students of the "cliometric" economic history of Britain, microeconomics and international trade, and historical method.

Enterprise & Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (Modern Revivals in Economic History Series)

Gregg Revivals

Deirdre McCloskey's work in economics always calls into question its reputation as "the dismal science." She writes with passion and an unusually wide scope, drawing on literature and intellectual history in exciting, if unorthodox, ways. In this pamphlet, McCloskey reveals what she sees as the secret sins of economics that no one will discuss—two sins that "cripple" economics as a "scientific enterprise."

The Secret Sins of Economics

Prickly Paradigm Press

Distinguished Professor, Economist, Historian, and Author Deirdre McCloskey brings the first in a three-part series of impromptus with, Historical Impromptus: Notes, Reviews, and Responses on the British Experience and the Great Enrichment. 
McCloskey is the retired Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 
In 2014, she was awarded the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award by the Austrian Economics Center and is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees. 
Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others. 
The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.

Historical Impromptus: Notes, Reviews, and Responses on the British Experience and the Great Enrichment

Education & Reference

American Institute for Economic Research

A common narrative of the post-World War II economists was that the State is indispensable for guiding investment and fostering innovation. They claimed that the wealth of the modern world is the result of past State guidance and that what is needed for future economic growth is more State guidance. This position has recently been rejuvenated in reaction to the Great Recession of 2008. 
The truth is that the enriched modern economy was not a product of State coercion. It was a product of a change in political and social rhetoric in northwestern Europe from 1517 to 1789. The Great Enrichment, that is, came from human ingenuity emancipated from the bottom up, not human ingenuity directed from the top down. 
The true question is what on balance is the best way to organize innovation—by the “wise State” or by commercially tested betterment? 
About the Authors 
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication, adjunct in classics and philosophy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2014, she was awarded the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award by the Austrian Economics Center and is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees. Her main research interests include the origins of the modern world, the misuse of statistical significance in economics and other sciences, and the study of capitalism, among many others. She is well known for her massive economic, historical, and literary trilogy The Bourgeois Era (2006, 2010, 2016). 
Alberto Mingardi is Director General of the Italian free-market think tank, Istituto Bruno Leoni. He is also Associate Professor of the history of political thought at IULM University in Milan and a Presidential Scholar in Political Theory at Chapman University. He is an adjunct fellow at the Cato Institute. He blogs at EconLog. 
He holds a PhD in Political Science from University of Pavia and edited critical editions of Thomas Hodgskin, Herbert Spencer and Vilfredo Pareto. His last book is Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Working Class: The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin (Routledge, 2020). 
The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity. 
The Adam Smith Institute is one of the world's leading think tanks, recognised as the best domestic and international economic policy think-tank in the UK and ranked 2nd in the world among Independent Think Tanks by the University of Pennsylvania. 
Independent, non-profit and non-partisan, we work to promote free market, neoliberal ideas through research, publishing, media outreach, and education. The Institute is today at the forefront of making the case for free markets and a free society in the United Kingdom. 
The Institute was founded in the 1970s, as post-war socialism reached its high-watermark. Then, as now, its purpose was to educate the public about free markets and economic policy, and to inject sound ideas into the public debate.

The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State

Mingardi, Alberto

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Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics

The rhetoric of economics (Rhetoric of the human sciences)

The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

The Rhetoric of Economics (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences)

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics

Enterprise & Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics (Modern Revivals in Economic History Series)

The Secret Sins of Economics

Historical Impromptus: Notes, Reviews, and Responses on the British Experience and the Great Enrichment

The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State