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1	Economical Writing more books like this by Deirdre N. McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! new only from $13.25!
2	The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives more books like this by Stephen Thomas Ziliak, Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist "Statistical significance," a technique that dominates medicine, economics, psychology, and many other scientific fields, has been a huge mistake. The outcome is a case study in bad science - how it originates and how it grows. These sciences, from agronomy to zoology, the authors find, engage "testing" that doesn't test and "estimating" that ... see all copies from $20.20! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
3	The Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy and Law: An Introduction more books like this by Michael Faure, Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist Although many books focus on law and economics, and environmental economics, this text combines the two topics in a fully integrated and comprehensive manner. The authors successfully bridge the gap between the disciplines of environmental law and traditional economics in a lucid and highly accessible style. "The Economic Analysis of Environmental ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $53.18! \| SVS
4	Crossing: A Memoir more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist In this memoir, economist Deirdre McCloskey discusses her decision to change her sex from male to female. McCloskey was known as Donald McCloskey for the first 50-plus years of her life. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise more books like this by Donald N McCloskey, Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives. "Writing with delicious wit ... see all copies from $4.58! new only from $17.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics more books like this by Donald N McCloskey, Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist Is economics a science? Deidre McCloskey says 'Yes, but'. Yes, economics measures and predicts, but - like other sciences - it uses literary methods too. Economists use stories as geologists do, and metaphors as physicists do. The result is that the sciences, economics among them, must be read as 'rhetoric', in the sense of writing with intent. ... see all copies from $20.89! new only from $36.00! \| SVS
7	The Vices of Economists; The Virtues of the Bourgeoisie more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist In this work, the "vices" are three bad habits into which economists have fallen over the past 50 years (bad statistics, bad theory, and bad applications of statistics and theory to public affairs). The author reports an open scandal in economic science, by now so serious that no economist believes a finding of statistical significance or a ... see all copies from $8.55! first editions
8	The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie," and David Brooks' "bobos" all have been, and still are, framed as responsible for everything ... see all copies from $13.26! new only from $14.43! \| first editions \| SVS
9	*How to Be Human: Though an Economist* more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist A witty and thoughtful romp through the profession and practice of economics see all copies from $5.44! new only from $25.14! \| SVS
10	A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey, Jr Hersh (Editor), George K Hersh, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common--the movement since the 1950s known variously as "cliometrics," "economic history," or "historical economics." A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, the only bibliography of ... see all copies from $34.19! new only from $95.86! \| first editions
11	Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist Is economics a science? Deidre McCloskey says 'Yes, but'. Yes, economics measures and predicts, but - like other sciences - it uses literary methods too. Economists use stories as geologists do, and metaphors as physicists do. The result is that the sciences, economics among them, must be read as 'rhetoric', in the sense of writing with intent. ... see all copies from $87.25! new only from $92.50! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Rhetoric of Economics more books like this by Deirdre N. McCloskey add to wishlist In this revised second edition, Deirdre McCloskey demonstrates how economic discourse employs metaphor, authority, symmetry and other rhetorical means of persuasion. "The Rhetoric of Economics" shows economists to be human persuaders and poets of the marketplace, even in their most technical and mathematical moods. It is further enhanced by three ... see all copies from $20.14! new only from $24.41!
13 view cover	Measurement and Meaning in Economics: The Essential Deirdre McCloskey more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist 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; ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $24.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913 more books like this by Donald N McCloskey, Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist McCloskey uses relatively uncomplicated economic tools to establish these points. The central tool is the measurement of total facto productivity in the iron and steel industry in Britain and abroad. It is supplemented by analyses of supply and demand of the profitability of adopting the basic open hearth process of steelmaking. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $28.31!
15	The Applied Theory of Price more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $18.95!
16 view cover	The Economic History of Britain Since 1700: Volume 1, 1700-1860 more books like this by Roderick Floud (Editor), Deirdre McCloskey (Editor) add to wishlist An economic history of Britain since 1700, in three volumes by thirty-nine eminent historians and economists, this book will succeed the first edition of 'Floud and McCloskey' (published in 1981) as the leading textbook on its subject. The text has a firm economic basis, but emphasises the historical context and chronology and is written in ... see all copies from $19.80! new only from $19.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Secret Sins of Economics more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist Deidre N. McCloskey's work in economics 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 ... see all copies from $40.00!
18	Econometric History more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $5.94!
19	The Writing of Economics more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $136.87!
20 view cover	Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist The essays in this work focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-19th century and the First World War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $181.64! \| first editions
21	Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings of the Mathematical Social Science Board Conference on the New Economic History of Britain, 1840-1930; Held at Eliot House, Harvard University, 1-3 September, 1970 more books like this by Deirdre N McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $18.54! first editions
22	The Rhetoric of Economics more books like this by Donald N. McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
23	Si Vous etes Si Malins: McCloskey Et La Rhetorique Des Sciences economiques, Suivi De La Rhetorique Des Sciences economiques De Deirdre N. McCloskey by Ludovic Frobert, Deirdre N. McCloskey add to wishlist see all copies from $59.50! new only from $59.50!

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