HeyJaredDeirdre Nansen McCloksey
Postmodern, quantitative, literary, ex-Marxist, economist, historian, Episcopalian, coastie-bred Chicagoan but now Washington woman who was once not.
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Let It Work (opens the original)
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I say “some.” For example, my colleague at Cato, the Englishman Ryan Bourne, does. My friend at Aix-Marseille University, the Frenchman Pierre Garello, does. We are serious people, willing to listen to reason and facts. We are devoted to finding and then announcing truths. We do not believe out of what our opponents call “fundamentalism,” that is—to insult some believing Christians, by the way, out of irrational motives having no basis in scientific reason and fact.The rest of the economists—yes
As Your Own Life Shows (opens the original)
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You doubt it’s as rosy as I say. I sympathize with your skepticism. You are bombarded daily with confidently asserted pessimisms, back-projected to the beginnings of the modern world, in the newspapers and on TV and in the latest Chicken-Little book from a respected (noneconomic) scientist. As the science writer Matt Ridley, like me a (rational) optimist, puts it:I find the world is full of people who think that their dependence on others is decreasing, or that they would be better off if they w
Then Many of Us Shot Up the Blade of a Hockey Stick (opens the original)
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Then after 1798—as economic historians have discovered over the past few decades—life in quite a few places got better. Slowly, and then quickly, and by now with unstoppable, ramifying, worldwide force, it got much better. Material life got better not merely for Europeans or imperial powers or Mr. Moneybags, but for ordinary people from Brooklyn to Beijing.The betterment stands in human history as that Great Enrichment, the most important secular event since we first domesticated squash and chic
Glorious Amateuring (opens the original)
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I complained about amateurs thinking they know enough about the economy to offer their amateur opinions.But the word “amateur” in both of our languages comes from Latin amare, to love. I have no complaint at all about people loving economics or any other serious study of the economy, such as economic sociology or economic history or political economy. I have since age 19. I was a socialist at that point, and believed that a supervising state was the way to help the poor. As I slowly became a pro
A Philosophical Psychology? (opens the original)
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If the Seven are good, common places to start a philosophical psychology, then they should show up in the works of psychologists. They do.A startling new book, published under the auspices of the American Psychological Association, edited and largely written by Christopher Peterson and Martin E. P. Seligman, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification (2004), lends empirical support to the Seven, at any rate within the European tradition in which they were theorized. It seeks,
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