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Measurement and meaning in economics : the essential Deirdre McCloskey / Deirdre McCloskey ; edited and introduced by Stephen Thomas Ziliak.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Economists of the twentieth centuryPublisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xxviii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1852788186
  • 9781852788186
  • 1843761742
  • 9781843761747
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 21
LOC classification:
  • HB71 .M3783 2001
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: D. N. McCloskey and the Rhetoric of a Scientific Economics -- Preface: Personal Knowledge -- Pt. I. Writing Historical Economics as if Measurement Mattered -- 1. Did Victorian Britain Fail? -- 2. English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk -- 3. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 -- 4. Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England -- 5. 1780-1860: A Survey -- 6. Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S -- Pt. II. Writing Economics and History as if Meaning Mattered -- 7. Why I Am No Longer A Positivist -- 8. The Rhetoric of Economics -- 9. Storytelling in Economics -- 10. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why -- 11. History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration -- 12. The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades -- 13. The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Film" -- 14. Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics -- 15. Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions -- 16. The Standard Error of Regressions -- App. The Publications of Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 1968-2000 -- Name index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-364) and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: D. N. McCloskey and the Rhetoric of a Scientific Economics -- Preface: Personal Knowledge -- Pt. I. Writing Historical Economics as if Measurement Mattered -- 1. Did Victorian Britain Fail? -- 2. English Open Fields as Behavior Towards Risk -- 3. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 -- 4. Corn at Interest: The Extent and Cost of Grain Storage in Medieval England -- 5. 1780-1860: A Survey -- 6. Bourgeois Virtue and the History of P and S -- Pt. II. Writing Economics and History as if Meaning Mattered -- 7. Why I Am No Longer A Positivist -- 8. The Rhetoric of Economics -- 9. Storytelling in Economics -- 10. How to Do a Rhetorical Analysis of Economics, and Why -- 11. History, Differential Equations, and the Problem of Narration -- 12. The Rhetoric of Scientism: How John Muth Persuades -- 13. The Lawyerly Rhetoric of Coase's "The Nature of the Film" -- 14. Some Consequences of a Conjective Economics -- 15. Economic Science: A Search Through the Hyperspace of Assumptions -- 16. The Standard Error of Regressions -- App. The Publications of Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, 1968-2000 -- Name index.

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